PESHAWAR: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has invited certain Pakistani politicians to Afghanistan for discussion on the prevailing situation in the region and the state of Pak-Afghan relations. Qaumi Watan Party (QWP)’s information secretary Tariq Khan told The News that their party head Aftab Ahmad Sherpao and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Sikandar Hayat Sherpao would leave for Kabul today on a three-day ...

Efforts related to talks between the Afghan government and Taliban with the help of Pakistan have been observed recently again after news of the death of Mulla Umar in July had delayed its second round. In the last few months Pakistan has been trying to bring the Afghan government to talks but Kabul instead wants that Pakistan should rather take ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin escalated his war of words with Turkey on Wednesday when he accused the Turkish leadership of having encouraged the “Islamization” of the country for years and stating that there was a “deeper problem” than just the Turkish military’s downing of a Russian warplane. The diplomatic fallout of Tuesday’s incident near the Syrian border is becoming ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called a news conference all lingering in Turkey Russians to leave the country immediately. Currently, estimates 10,000 Russian citizens in Turkey on. They were now invited by Sergei Lavrov to leave the country immediately. Reason is today’s shooting down of a Russian fighter jets at the Turkish-Syrian border. Aljazeera reported on this detail of the ...

NEW YORK: The Pakistani national al-Qaida operative Abid Naseer was found guilty in a court in Brooklyn on the charges of his involvement in terror-related activities including his material support to a terrorist cell, his involvement in planning of bombing a shopping mall in London and association with men who had conspired to bomb the New York City subway. Naseer, 29, ...

INDIA: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has said that he and his wife Kiran Rao have resolved to leave India because of growing religious intolerance in the country. Aamir Khan says that he feels the sense of fear and insecurity more than ever. “There is growing sense of despondency”, he added. He says that his wife tells him for the first ...

Downing of Russian plane is a ‘stab in the back’ from Turkey, says Putin. The war plane that Turkey shoots down is the Su-24 according to the Russian president Vladimir Putin, which was flying over Syrian territory and hit by Turkish F-16s. The Turkish media, however, reports that the Russian War plane was hit in the territory of Turkey, and ...

Germany is to maintain its military presence in northern Afghanistan in 2016 in cooperation with its NATO partners, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday. “We have agreed – and this is very good news – that we are going to go ahead with our contribution in the mission of strengthening the security architecture in Afghanistan. That ...

LONDON: More than half of Britons now want to leave the European Union, according to an opinion poll carried out after the Paris attacks for the Independent newspaper. The ORB survey of 2,000 people showed 52 per cent of British voters wanted to leave while 48 per cent wanted to stay. In similar polls in June, July and September, a ...

France is pulling out all the stops as François Hollande scrambles to fulfil his ambitious pledge to build a global military coalition to defeat Islamic State following the Paris attacks. The French president has won public approval and international backing for his handling of the crisis so far. His poll ratings are up by eight points to 33%. Foreign leaders ...