PESHAWAR: At least 23 persons were killed and more than 100 other injured as a result of high intensity car bomb explosion in most busy and congested Bazaar at Parachinar, headquarter of Kurram Agency on Friday. The killed persons included two women and a baby girl.  Conditions of several injured stated precarious and on such grounds, increase in number of ...

The visiting Russian delegation. -ISPR A Russian military delegation, accompanied by senior officers of the Pakistan Army, visited Miran Shah in North Waziristan Agency and Wanna in South Waziristan Agency, said a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The delegation of the Russian army, the first ever to visit the conflict-stricken areas, was led by Deputy Chief of General ...

KABUL: The restive eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan once again witnessed artillery shelling from the other side of the Durand Line as dozens of shells landed in its two districts in the past twenty four hours. According to the local officials, the artillery shelling took place on Sarkano and Khas Kunar districts. Provincial police spokesman Faridullah Dehqan confirmed that more ...

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, signs the official letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, invoking Article 50 and signalling the United Kingdom’s intention to leave the EU, in the cabinet office inside 10 Downing Street.─AFP Britain is set to formally file for divorce from the European Union Wednesday, walking out on a 44-year relationship, enacting the decision made by ...

Tennis star Maria Sharapova said on Tuesday she is excited about her return to competition next month, feeling vindicated by the reduction of her doping suspension and empowered by her time away. Russia’s former world number one was initially barred for two years after testing positive at the 2016 Australian Open for meldonium, a medication she had been taking for ...

HEIDELBERG: The German police have arrested a Taliban commander identified as Abdullah who is accused of killing of 16 American and Afghan soldiers, German media reported on Wednesday. Notorious commander Abdullah, 30, old has been taken in custody in southern Bavaria province of Germany during an investigation on March 23, local media said. German attorney office said that Abdullah had ...

So what is Attan? In one word it is a dance. It is the dance of the Pashtuns, a people who according to some are the largest tribal society in the world. Since the dance in some cases also serves as a form of tribal identity (although there are exceptions), the large number of tribes and sub-tribes is reflected in ...

PESHAWAR: At least two students were injured and 12 arrested on Tuesday after clash between members of the Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba (IJT) and Pakhtun Students Federation (PSF) on the premises of Islamia College University in Peshawar. Eyewitnesses claimed that IJT members had stopped and questioned a PSF member while he was walking with a female student who studies at the same ...

KABUL:The Afghan government and people have reacted to the unauthorized and alleged fencing work by Pakistan along the Durand Line and called it un-acceptable and unproductive move of Islamabad. The ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson, Ahmad Shakib Mostaghni said in a conference on Tuesday here in Kabul that the fencing work along the Durand Line would be ineffective without Kabul’s ...

BELGIUM: A large number of Afghan nationals based in Europe, staged a peaceful demonstration in front of European Parliament building in Brussels against the violation of Afghanistan’s sovereignty by shelling of Pakistan’s rockets into the eastern Nangarhar and other provinces. Shan Pacha Shinwari, leading the protest, told THE PASHTUN TIMES that the Afghans based in different European countries and people ...