KABUL: Twenty-four girls’ schools that previously were closed by the Taliban insurgents, reopened in central Logar province, provincial education officials said on Wednesday. They said that tribal elders, religious scholars and the government had put their last-ditch efforts to reopen these schools. Education Department’s spokesman, Mohammad Shapoor Arab, told Pajhwok Afghan News that insurgents had shut down the door of ...

KABUL: The Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai and India’s Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on Tuesday explored ways to expand bilateral cooperation. Jaishankar and Karzai led the Indian and Afghan delegations in the foreign office consultations in New Delhi. The two sides commended friendly relations between the two countries and discussed ways to expand bilateral security cooperation. They also discussed ...

PILDAT has requested the Punjab’s Director General of Public Relations an access to the annual expenditure of the Government of Punjab on promotional advertisement. The request has been acknowledged by DGPR. PILDAT has also assessed in its 4th monitor on Right to Information (RTI) the recent directives from the Prime Minister house and the Cabinet Division which ask all information ...

Leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful countries are set to vow to conduct joint actions against growing global terrorism following an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack that killed at least 129 people in France, in the first written statement issued by the G-20 on a political issue. The Antalya Summit held by Turkey, the ...

STOCKHOLM: Once again, Paris is in horrible situation. Dead bodies of the innocent civilians are lying on the streets. Friends and families make desperate calls, panic spreads. A nation is in trauma for the second time in a year 2015. A year that started with the Charlie Hebdo tragedy ended with a more dramatic attacks claiming more than 150 lives. ...

PARIS: The attacks of November 13, 2015 in Île-de-France are a series of shootings that occurred on the night of Nov. 13 to 14, 2015 in Paris in the tenth and eleventh arrondissements (restaurant “Little Cambodia” bar, “Le Carillon “Republic Square, rue Bichat, Bataclan, Boulevard Beaumarchais, rue de Charonne Faidherbe street) and explosions at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. ...

FRANCE: 140 people have so far been reported to have died and many more injured in a series of gunshots and bomb blasts in the capital of France. Police has entered Bataclan concert hall where the terrorists had held hostages. Moreover, the national stadium in Paris as well as a popular restaurants have also been attacked. The French president Hollande ...

BANNU: Nasir Iqbal Khan hails from the southern district of Bannu (Amandi) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and is Pakistan’s No. 1 and the world No. 41 Squash champion. He defeated Todd Harrity in the final of the President Gold Cup International Squash Tournament with 3-0. Earlier in the semi-final Nasir Iqbal had scored victory with an upset against the top seed ...

PESHAWAR: Malala Yousafzai has become a star of the silver screen after an American film director and producer has made a documentary film on her life. The teen activist stars in this new Hollywood documentary, He Named Me Malala, produced by the US director Davis Guggenheim. The documentary is currently shown in cinemas all over America. Mala features in the ...

ISLAMABAD: The Leader of Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Mehmood Achakzai has expressed reservations on the press release of ISPR, which stressed on complimentary initiatives on the part of civilian government with a view to secure long term security gains in the military operations against terrorism. Addressing the National Assembly, Mehmood Achakzai said that ISPR press release concerning the yesterday’s Corps’ ...