Afghan women and children wait for verification of documents at the UN repatriation centre in Chamkani, Peshawar, on Friday. — White Star PESHAWAR: The United Nations Voluntary Repatriation Centre (VRC) in Peshawar is unable to cope with the unexpected surge in the number of repatriating Afghan refugees, who traveled from Punjab and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but got stuck for ...

Security guards from the Quick Response Force on Friday stand alert in their vehicle at Chaman after the closure of the border gate.— INP QUETTA: Pakistan has closed its border with Afghanistan indefinitely after a group of Afghan demonstrators attacked the Friendship Gate at Chaman and set the Pakistani flag on fire, it emerged on Friday. The incident that took ...

PESHAWAR: The Corridor Front, a grouping of various political parties and civil society organisations, on Thursday warned the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor would become controversial like Kalabagh dam if the federal government didn’t address grievances of smaller provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan about it. Corridor Front convener Dr Said Alam Mehsud told reporters at the Peshawar Press Club that the grouping would force ...

The Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has invited the Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah to visit Pakistan, the Office of the CEO said Wednesday. According to a statement by CEO’s office, the invitation was extended by Pakistani Ambassador to AFghanistan Abrar Hussain during a meeting with CEO Abdullah in Sepidar Palace. The statement further added CEO Abdullah thanked Prime Minister ...

PAKISTAN: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Pakistan called up Mahmood Khan Achakzai to clarify his remarks on the Pakistani military establishment. After deadly suicide blast in Quetta City of Balochistan, the leader of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Achakzai said that Pakistani intelligence agencies were spying on politicians rather than doing their job—“to foil terror attacks in the country.” ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani troops and Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) exchanged fire across the Line of Control (LoC) on Independence Day, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said Sunday. ISPR said Indian troops resorted to “unprovoked firing” in the Nezapir sector near Rawalakot between 2am to 8:30am on Aug 14. No casualties have been reported so far on either side of ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has urged people to reject attempts by some elements to turn Pakistan into a “theocratic state” as the party continues its verbal attacks on Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar for his outburst against the PPP leadership. Felicitating the nation on the country’s 70th Independence Day, Mr Zardari, in a message released by the ...

Pakistan’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz has said an intelligence sharing deal between the Afghan intelligence and Pakistani intelligence agencies could help counter terrorism. Speaking during a press conference on Friday, Aziz called on Afghanistan to help create a formal intelligence-sharing deal between National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). The call by Aziz came despite allegations ...

Mr. Achakzai is being called a traitor for speaking the truth, Jahangir regrets. QUETTA: Former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and human rights activist Asma Jahangir on Thursday said that she would defend Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai in a court of law if a petition was filed against him for his criticism of intelligence ...

A former lawmaker and prominent Pakistani politician Afrasiab Khattak said that Pakistani security establishment’s support for the Afghan Taliban is an open secret. He is not the only one, as several other politicians and critics slammed security establishments of their country for their ‘good and bad’ terrorist approach. He said that “unfortunately”, the state couldn’t muster the political will to ...