LONDON: London firefighters, traumatised by the devastation they witnessed in a high-rise apartment blaze that killed at least 17 people, worked Thursday to make the building safe so they could continue the search for more victims. Entire families are missing, and the death toll is certain to rise after flames tore through the 120-unit Grenfell Tower in the early hours ...

KABUL: The Taliban group led by Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada claimed responsibility behind the attack on Mullah Rasool’s faction in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, claiming that nearly 50 insurgents of the group were killed or wounded in the attack. A Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed that 26 militants were killed and 18 others were wounded in the attack. Ahmadi ...

KABUL: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday arrived in capital Kabul on an unscheduled visit. He is due tomeet national unity government leaders and UN officials in the country. The UN secretary general is in Kabul for the first time after assuming office to show solidarity with the people of Afghanistan for peace, stability and development, said the UN ...

LONDON: A massive fire ripped through a 27-storey apartment block in west London before dawn Wednesday, causing dozens of casualties and trapping residents inside. Rescue services, giving an early toll, said 30 people had been hospitalised, and eyewitnesses said they had seen others fall or jump from the stricken building. Flames ravaged the tower, lighting up the pre-dawn west London ...

In 1921, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan founded an organization called Anjuman e Islah ul Afghania (Society for the Reform of Afghans) for economic, social and educational reforms. With the passage of time, Bacha Khan realized that the organization had slender success in mobilizing mass interest in social reform and nationalist struggle. Therefore, he began to give thought to a much ...

SWABI: Mohammad Iqbal, father of the lynched Mardan university student Mashal Khan, said here on Monday that without financial support of the government and provision of security his two daughters won’t be able to continue their education. Talking to this correspondent, he said Mashal’s two younger sisters, Storia Iqbal and Saba Iqbal, were not in a position to attend educational ...

PESHAWAR: A commander of the Haqqani terrorist network has reportedly been targeted in a US airstrike in tribal regions of Pakistan. According to the local officials, the airstrike was carried out late on Monday night in the vicinity of Hangu district located in northwestern parts of Pakistan. A security official quoted by the Mashal Radio of Radio Liberty has said ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani says China would mediate between Afghanistan and Pakistan for the first time, with the Chinese foreign minister set to visit Kabul soon. Ghani’s office said in a statement on Tuesday the president made the statement during a meeting with women activists from different organisations. The president equated the May 31 bombing in Kabul to the 9/11 ...

An open letter to the United Nations’ Commission on Human Rights and International law, The International Court of Justice, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, European Parliament, European External Action Service, All the head of Democratic countries of the world and other International Human Rights Organizations. Honorable United Nations’ Human Rights Commissioners, The President and the members of International Court of ...

Defense Secretary James Mattis told a congressional panel late Monday President Donald Trump will get options presented to him “very soon” on how to deal with the conflict in Afghanistan, including whether to send more U.S. troops there amid the worsening violence. Mattis stressed that the Afghanistan matter should be viewed more broadly as a regional issue since it could ...