Political Agent North Waziristan Agency Kamran Afridi in an Exclusive Interview with The Pashtun Times “There is no doubt that any place where minerals are unearthed becomes the property of the state” The Pashtun Times’ team has conducted an exclusive interview with the Political Agent of North Waziristan Agency Kamran Ahmad Afridi about the rehabilitation of the IDPs. Kamran Afridi ...

PESHAWAR: The establishment of Malala University in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been refused by the Provincial Assembly. Earlier the provincial Assembly member from ANP Jaffar Shah and the provincial parliamentarian from PPP Nighat Orakzai had tabled a resolution in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly, proposing the establishment of a university in the province after the name of Pashtun Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai. ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has rejected the remarks by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani for calling the residents of Waziristan tribal regions ‘Pakistanis’. The office of the Former President issued a statement following President Ghani’s remarks he delivered during the Heart of Asia summit in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. The statement further added that the Former ...

ISLAMABAD: The director of the National Institute of Historical & Culture Research (NIHCR), a subordinate research institute of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), has been removed from his post abruptly. The rumors have it that the renowned historian had disagreed with the official history of Pakistan. Dr Shah was immediately removed after he gave a speech at the International Conference on Sindh, History ...

CANADA: Krima Baloch, the Chairperson of Baloch Students Organization, for the first time appeared in a public event without veil in Canada. The event called Rights for Rights was organized by the Amnesty International in the Canadian city of Toronto on Saturday. She discussed the issues of Balochistan and Baloch people with the Canadian Officials of the Amnesty International where ...

Mr. Amjed Ayaz Khan is a senior English teacher at Government Post Graduate College, Bannu. He has a master degree in literature from the University of the Punjab. He has been teaching English language and literature for 20 years in Pakistan and outside Pakistan. He remained AdvancED and CITA (Asia Pacific Region) accreditation advisor to a number of American and ...

Exclusive interview with Dr. Said Alam Mehsud; Physician, Researcher and Leader of the Pashtunkhwa Ulasi Tehreek Please can you introduce yourself to our readers? Dr. Said Alam Mehsud: Yes sure! I am a physician by profession and I was born in South Waziristan on 17th May 1958 in Pamana village of Tehsil Ladha, schooling in Government Muslim High School Rawalpindi ...

PESHAWAR:By Wakeel Khan: The head of the leading Baloch separatist leader Dr Allah Nazar has appeared alive in a new video released by Baloch Liberation Front on Thursday. Earlier in August Allah Nazar was declared dead in an operation in Awaran district by Pakistani government and had considered his death to be a major victory for the state to quell ...

BANNU: By Gohar Wazir and Karim Ullah Khan The Federal Minister Akram Khan Durrani narrowly escaped an attempt made on his life when in the evening an improvised explosive device hit his convoy in Bakka Khel, Bannu.  According to the initial reports it was a remote-controlled bomb blast, in which two persons have died. Today when Akram Durrani was returning ...

ISLAMABAD: Head of Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan has met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his house yesterday to show his concerns to Nawaz Sharif over the government ignoring the construction of Western rout of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which will pass through two under-developed smaller western provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to the sources Asfandyar Wali ...