KABUL: The German Green Party has strongly condemned the recent US bombing in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province. Under the presidency of the Donald Trump, US has obtained unfair strategy in which attention toward civilian protection has not been paid, the party added. Green party security spokeswoman, and also member of German parliament, Agnieszka Brugger said: “Trump through carrying ...

PARIS: Partial results from the French presidential election suggest that the centrist Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen of the anti-immigration National Front will face each other in next month’s run-off poll. Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen will contest the second round of the French presidential election, initial projections suggested Sunday, after a nail-biting vote seen ...

KABUL: The association of the Afghan youth declared support to the former president Hamid Karzai for his remarks against the US aerial attack. Karzai was the first Afghan who criticized the drop of the world’s biggest bomb by the United States military on April 13, in the Achin district of Nangarhar province. “We on behalf of a large number of ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani arrived to northern Balkh province of Afghanistan after a deadly attack ripped through the Afghan army corps base in this province. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani arrived in Balkh province after the attack on the 209thShaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army. No further details have been given regarding the ...

KABUL: At least 135 soldiers have been killed and 65 others wounded in a Taliban attack on the Shaeen Military Corps in northern Balkh province, a well-placed source revealed on Saturday. More bodies were recovered this morning, taking the overnight toll from 70 to 130, the official told Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonymity. The attackers clad in military ...

Local people stage rally in Swabi on Thursday to express solidarity with Mashal Khan. Dawn SWABI: The residents of Mashal Khan’s native town, Zaida, on Thursday gathered at the grave of the Abdul Wali Khan University student lynched by a mob over the alleged blasphemy lately and apologised to the deceased and his family for failing to ‘stand with them ...

ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties on Friday ramped up the pressure against the ruling PML-N and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, demanding the premier’s resignation with one voice and protesting yesterday’s Supreme Court verdict on Panamagate in Parliament. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), PPP and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) each held press conferences following a meeting of opposition parties in Islamabad. PTI Chairman Imran Khan himself ...

FRANCE: Paris police say a gunman has killed a police officer and wounded another before being killed himself in an attack on the Champs-Elysees shopping district. Paris police spokeswoman Johanna Primevert told The Associated Press that the attacker targeted police guarding the area near the Franklin Roosevelt subway station Thursday night at the center of the avenue popular with tourists. ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told Trump that  he has commuted an immense atrocity against the Afghan people. “My message to President Donald Trump today is that he has committed an immense atrocity against the Afghan people,” He said in a Twitter post. Karzai further added that Trump has committed atrocity againstthe fellow Afghans, against fellow human ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that Russia has the right to have relations with the Taliban group as he has adopted a hard stance against the United States, specifically after the MOAB bombing o ISIS hideouts in Achin district of Nangarhar. During an exclusive interview with the Voice of America’s Afghanistan service, Karzai insisted that the ...