WASHINGTON: Former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, said on Friday that he was being forced to give up his Pakistani citizenship and that’s why his passport was delayed. Mr Haqqani had applied for a new passport several months ago, after his old passport expired, but he received it on Aug 25. Mr Haqqani has been living in ...

KABUL:The Foreign Office of Pakistan expressed concerns regarding the growing military cooperation between Kabul and New Delhi as Afghanistan expects delivery of more weapons from India. Nafees Zakaria, spokesman for the Foreign Office of Pakistan, told reports “Such cooperation should not be to the detriment of Pakistan.” He was apparently guesturing towards the latest attempts by Kabul and New Delhi ...

KABUL: A Pakistani official has said scholarships have been granted to at least 2,000 Afghan students in different colleges in the country including engineering and medical. Abdul Qadir Baloch has informed regarding the approval of the scholarships to the Afghan students, according to local media reports in Pakistan. Speaking to media in Pakistan, Baloch said over 7,000 Afghan students were ...

KABUL: The Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has asked the Pakistani Army Chief General Raheel Sharif to act against the culprits of Kabul attack based in Pakistan. The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani called Gen. Sharif during the National Security Council meeting and asked him to take actions against the culprits who are based in Pakistan. ...

The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal condemned the burning of the Pakistani flag by certain individuals at the Friendship Gate located along the Durand Line in Chaman. “Five days ago some individuals in Speen Boldak/Chaman disrespected and burnt Pakistani flag, as a result the gate has since been closed causing enormous difficulties to people on both sides including ...

Rangers take MQM leaders Farooq Sattar, Khawaja Izhar into custody KARACHI: MQM leader Farooq Sattar was taken into custody by Rangers personnel as he was trying to address the media persons outside Press Club, DawnNews reported. The senior MQM leader was about to address a press conference when Rangers personnel showed up at Press Club and asked Sattar and Khawaja ...

KARACHI: Head of his own faction of the Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman warned the Sindh government on Sunday to refrain from making laws ‘discriminatory against madressahs’ and other religious bodies, otherwise religious leaders, scholars and cadres would have no other option but to take ‘direct action’. “Those who are targeting madressahs are serving the agenda of their foreign ...

KHOST CITY: Mullah Abdul Rauf Arafi has been appointed as new leader of a Talibansplinter group, led by Mullah Rasoul, the group’s spokesman Mullah Abdul Rahman Niazi said on Saturday. In a telephonic conversation, Niazai told Pajhwok Afghan News Mullah Arafi had been appointed by a 13-member executive council of the group. He is a resident of the Spin Boldak district ...

An Afghan cleric who was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was close to Afghan Taliban group, it has been reported. Sheikh Ghulam Hazrat was among three religious clerics who have been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Pakistan during the recent days. His father Sheikh Khwaja Muhammad Hazrat was also killed along with him ...

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, applied for a new Pakistani passport 11 weeks ago but has not yet received it, he has told Dawn. But an official at the Pakistan Embassy, Washington, dispelled the impression that the government had decided not to issue a passport to the former ambassador for his alleged anti-Pakistan views. Since ...