KABUL: The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) chairman Shokrullah Atif Mashal says the agreement regarding bilateral series between Afghanistan and Pakistan cricket tams has not been fully finalized yet. Speaking to reports in Kabul, Mashal said the cricket boards of the two nations have only agreed in words regarding the series. Mashal further added that he visited Pakistan based on persistent ...

KABUL: Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) chief Gulbadin Hekmatyar’s secretary was gunned down in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, a party official said. Qaribur Rahman Syed, HIA spokesman, told local media that the incident happened in the Tajabad area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, early in the morning. Haji Farid was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on his way to house ...

KABUL: More than 100,000 Afghans have been forced to leave their homes because of war in 2017, the United Nations (UN) reported on May 29. Data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) showed that 103,229 people have been displaced since January 2017. The figure marked a 36 percent decrease compared to the same period in ...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani on Tuesday expressed his anger at the lack of a response from the government regarding the Saudi Arabia-led 41-nation military alliance headed by former army chief retired Gen Raheel Sharif. “Why don’t we just shut down Parliament?” a visibly frustrated Rabbani said, after his attempts to draw attention to the issue did ...

GERMANY: Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. “The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel told a crowd at an election rally ...

BY KADWAL: The British colonialists were angry because the freedom movement of the Khudai Khidmatgars, also known as the Red Shirts, was in full swing. After Peshawar and Utmanzai, Takkar was the stronghold of the movement and the British authorities were arresting leaders of the movement to crush it. On May 26, 1930 the British police officer Murphy arrived in ...

KABUL: Afghanistan, China and Pakistan have held their first round of trilateral Practical Cooperation Dialogue (PCD) in Beijing, the capital of China, a media report said on Sunday. The three countries agreed to promote practical measures for cooperation and exchanged views on deeper trilateral links during the meeting late on Saturday, according to Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribune. The dialogue ...

Women rule in Muslim countries is a unique and refreshing idea. If we look back in history, we find the Razia Sultana, Benazir Bhutto, Khalida Zia and others who have managed to walk the corridors of power with pride. In Pakistan, the second most populous Muslim-majority country, Benazir Bhutto was elected twice as the prime minister of the country. But ...

On the evening of Monday, May 22, a group of Pashtun musicians from Peshawar lit up the Edmund Burke Theatre at Trinity College, Dublin with their electrifying, energetic instrumental folk sound, based on Pashtun tunes, fused with western instruments. Khumaryaan performed to a packed theatre with a big turnout of people originally hailing from Afghanistan and Pakistan. The concert involved ...

News emanating from FATA and also emerging from power corridors of the country about the area is once again ominous. If the news reports about a drone attack in North Waziristan four days back is correct, it is the third drone attack in FATA during the last few months. Pakistan Air Force has also bombarded terrorist positions in North Waziristan ...