KABUL:  Nat Geo’s famed ‘Afghan Girl’ Sharbat Gula on Wednesday said she kept her Afghan pride throughout the migration and never asked for help amid hard times and fame. Gula, who was made famous by a National Geographic cover in 1985, arrived in Kabul from Pakistan through the Torkham border after completing a 14-day jail sentence she served in hospital ...

Pakistan Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Kashmir Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed has said that peace in Afghanistan links to the resolution of the Kashmir issues and said a solution to both is required for peace. For the first time, Pakistan has linked peace in Afghanistan to the resolution of the Kashmir issue, saying a solution to both is required for ...

On Sept 22, the Afghan government signed a peace agreement with one of the country’s most notorious warlords, in a deal aimed at coaxing the Afghan Taliban and other militant groups to sign similar accords. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, designated a global terrorist by the US, entered into this deal on behalf of Hezb-i-Islami, the militant group that he founded. Under the ...

KABUL: The Ashraf Ghani administration and the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) on Thursday signed a landmark peace deal after two years of negotiations. On behalf of the government, the agreement was signed by High Peace Council (HPC) Chairman Pir Syed Ahmad Gilani and National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar. Eng. Mohammad Amin Karim and Political Affairs head Ghairat Baher affixed their ...

KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday said state to state relations with Pakistan are a bigger challenge for Afghanistan than the existence of terror groups such as Al-Qaeda and Taliban. In an interview with Geo News, the Afghan President alleged that Pakistan provides sanctuaries to terrorists and trains them, making relations with Pakistan, the bigger challenge for his country. ...

Is Pakistan still busy in ‘Hide and Seek’? In a reaction to President Ashraf Ghani’s statements on the lack of Pakistan’s interest in fight against terrorism, Islamabad has apparently made efforts to pretend the reality is not what Afghanistan says. President Ghani in an addressing to the NATO summit in the capital of Poland had said that his country was ...

Collaborating with Tokyo on the port project could serve as a springboard for New Delhi to develop credible partnerships with external stakeholders, and elevate its political and economic profile in the region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Iran drew a great deal of interest, largely on account of the tripartite agreement for the development of the Chabahar port, ...

QUETTA: Leaders of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) in Switzerland have said that a six-day camp set up at the Broken Chair in Geneva to highlight human rights violations in Balochistan has ended. BRP president in Switzerland Sher Baz Bugti, vice president Qadir Bugti and secretary general Mohammad Nawaz Bugti said in a joint statement that the objective of the ...

Sartaj Aziz’s suggestion to Afghan government to offer Taliban something they can’t gain on battlefield indicates something which has not been spoken by Pakistani officials during last fifteen years. The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz has recently said Afghan government should offer something to the Taliban that they cannot gain in battlefield to bring peace in the war-torn country. ...

Children scavenge through the garbage in this file photo. ISLAMABAD: Nearly 39 per cent of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty with the highest rates in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Balochistan. Though the national poverty rates have dropped from 55 to 39pc since 2004. According to Pakistan’s first ever Multidim­ensional Poverty Index (MPI), launched on Monday, progress across ...