SWAT-PASHTUNKHWA: Hundreds of Pashtun masses in Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa staged a big demonstration in Khwazakhela against the security forces of Pakistan, calling on Islamabad to quit its military installations and to put an end to the ongoing brutalities, ...
Read More »Bringing Taliban to the table of talks is impossible: Aftab Sherpao
KABUL: A top Pakistani politician said that fetching the Taliban militant group to the table of talks is impossible, rejecting the Taliban’s offer for direct talks with the United States as unjustifiable. In an interview published on Sunday, Qaumi Watan ...
Read More »Target is to bring back all refugees in 2 years: Ghani
KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani has said the “unpredictable” victory in the Jihad against the former Soviet Union forces would remain a historic pride for the nation. The president, who addressed a gathering at the Presidential Palace in connection with the 29th anniversary of ...
Read More »Afghanistan denies China is building military base in Badakhshan
KABUL: Afghanistan has refuted claims that China wants to establish a military base in the northeast province of Badakhshan in a bid to extend its presence in Afghanistan. “Such military cooperation by the foreign countries will not take place without ...
Read More »Intl community to reiterate its commitment to Afghanistan at Kabul Process: US
WASHINGTON: The Kabul Process scheduled for February 28 will serve as a platform for the international community to support Afghan efforts to achieve security, peace and reconciliation, and economic development, the US said. “We look forward to that process because we see ...
Read More »Pashtun Long March live with Tarek Fatah
#PashtunLongMarch Guests: Tarek Fatah, Obaidullah Wardak, Prof. Siraj Khan Host: Aurang Zeb Khan Zalmay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-KWdqqsKz8
Read More »Afghan government to decide about Chinese military base: NATO
KABUL: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has urged close regional cooperation to address ongoing crisis in Afghanistan. The secretary general expressed the view while addressing a press conference on Thursday after the NATO defence ministers meeting in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. When ...
Read More »Pakistan killed 23, injured 48 Afghan civilians in 2017: UN
KABUL: Pakistani forces have killed 23 and injured 48 Afghan civilians as result of their cross border mortar attacks at least in four Afghan provinces near the so-called Durand Line in 2017, a violation that even “concerned” the United Nations ...
Read More »Pashtun Spring: Time to redraw the boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan
Angry Pashtun tribesmen chanting anti-Taliban and freedom slogans torched the office of the Taliban in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in response to the Jan. 3 police killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, an inspiring Pashtun model, during a raid of what police said was ...
Read More »”Visiting Miriamshah was like visiting a graveyard”
I recently visited Miramshah and my village, Darpa Khel — after many years, owing to militancy followed by Operation Zarb-i-Azb. Much has been written on the miseries of the tribesmen during militancy and displacement. Here, I examine what their lives ...
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