The Nobel Peace Prize winner will be studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics No need for Malala to feel nervous jitters anymore as she now knows that her Oxford University admission has been confirmed. The Nobel Peace Prize winner tweeted a screenshot of her acceptance stating that she has met the criteria to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University ...

KABUL: The Pakistani army on Wednesday informed regarding the arrest of at least twenty Afghan nationals during the joint military operations. The Inter Services Public Relations, media wing of the Pakistani military, in a statement said “Pakistan Rangers Punjab alongwith Police and intelligence agencies carried IBO  in Attock, DG Khan and Lahore.” The statement further added “During the last 72 ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday stressed the need for fundamental changes in the higher education system, saying politics had no room in universities. He said the higher education institutes should be used as centres of interaction and openness. Addressing a gathering at the Kabul University marking the beginning of the higher education year, the president said the present generation had greater ...

KABUL: Zamir Kabulov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation to Afghanistan alleged the “American campaign” has failed in “this Central Asian” country. Izvestia, a Russian daily newspaper wrote that Moscow considers the US campaign in Afghanistan to be a failure. Therefore, as Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special envoy for Afghanistan, told the paper, the US needs to withdraw its ...

It is time for the Afghan government to strongly react to a statement made by former Blackwater CEO, Erik Prince that Taliban or Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh terrorists, would raise their battle flag over the US embassy in six months or a year, if forces pull out of Afghanistan. “There’s a lot of people that say just ...

KABUL: The Baloch-Americans during an event, joined by a large number of Afghans have appealed the United States to impose economic and political sanctions on Pakistan for being involved in violation of human rights in Balochistan province. Ahmar Khan, founding president of the American Friends of Balochistan, accused: “As I speak, Pakistani generals are killing the Balochs, dumping our bodies ...

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani expressed concerns regarding the misuse of the youths of country to spark tensions among the people of the country. He made the remarks during a gathering organized in ARG Presidential Palace to mark the international youth day. President Ghani said questions should be asked from those involved in sparking divisions among the people and the interests ...

Ex-president Hamid Karzai has warned that outsourcing the war in Afghanistan will lead to deterioration of security if the privatisation proposal goes ahead. Outsourcing the war management to the notorious private security firm Blackwater would violate Afghanistan’s sovereignty and constitution, he wrote on his social media account. Such a step would amount to prolonging the conflict and the killing innocent civilians, women and children ...

People in the heartland of Punjab aren’t convinced by the verdict, the loud noises made by the cheerleaders of the creeping coup notwithstanding. The clash between de jure (the constitutional system) and de facto (the deep state epitomised by the JIT) predicted and feared by many has taken place in the form of the judicial coup. The de facto has ...

The Vienna Peace Museum in 2014 launched “Peace Heroes” in which they feature personalities that are both historic and contemporary. For their 2017 edition, the museum introduced Malala Yousufzai and Abdul Sattar Edhi as one of their prominent peace heroes. “Peace Museum Vienna attempts to conduct peace education through the lives of its Peace Heroes. These heroes include historic as ...