ISLAMABAD: The United States has put forward a motion to place Pakistan on a global terrorist-financing watchlist with an anti-money-laundering monitoring group, according to a senior Pakistani official. Pakistan has been scrambling in recent months to avert being added to ...
Read More »Afghans in Brussels rally against Pakistan
KABUL: The Afghan people living in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, took out to the streets against Pakistan for it is support o the various terrorist group that caused recent terrorist in Kabul, in which large number of innocent people ...
Read More »The Pashtun Long March: Reviving the nonviolent creed of Bacha Khan
What could Bacha Khan teach Pakistan in light of the Pashtun Long March? “I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon ...
Read More »SC grants Rao Anwar protective bail after former SSP pleads his innocence in ‘letter to CJP’
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, during the Naqeebullah Mehsud extra-judicial killing case hearing, granted protective bail to Rao Anwar and directed the former Malir senior superintendent police (SSP) to appear in court on Friday. The case was being heard ...
Read More »Pashtuns’ parlat
In the last weeks, Islamabad witnessed an outpouring of extreme anger and fury from Pakistan’s Pashtun dominated areas. Thousands of protestors including University students, rights activists, and political workers converged at the National Press Club to condemn extrajudicial killings, disappearances ...
Read More »Editorial: If Pakistan was made by Pashtuns’ forefathers, then what it would have been?
EDITORIAL: Pakistan, if, was made by our forefathers, the forefathers of Pashtuns, and if it was their dream, they wouldn’t have made such a Pakistan where their children are not safe, where their children are being bitten by terrorists coming ...
Read More »Karzai was right on pressurizing Islamabad: Zalmay Khalilzad
KABUL: The former President, Hamid Karzai was right in his decision to further pressurize Pakistan and this was the core reason behind divergence with US administration, the former US envoy to Kabul, and Iraq said. Zalmay Khalilzad in an interview ...
Read More »Young Pashtuns have shown the mirror to ‘mainstream’ Pakistan
The taboo subject of missing persons is back in the national conversations. Muzzling information and punishing those who reported on it has not worked. This past fortnight Pakistan witnessed unprecedented mobilisation by the youth of tribal areas. Thousands protested seeking ...
Read More »Pakistan: Human rights icon Asma Jahangir passes away
Leading human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir passes away in Lahore ISLAMABAD: Renowned lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir passed away in Lahore on Sunday due to a cardiac arrest. Jahangir, 66, was a human rights lawyer based in Pakistan and was ...
Read More »Pashtun protest
More than a week of peaceful protest by thousands of Pashtun activists ( mostly from Waziristan and FATA) in front of Islamabad Press Club may or may not succeed in forcing the government to accept their reasonable demands but it has definitely redefined Pashtun political discourse ...
Read More »