PESHAWAR – Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali Khan said on Monday that presenting budget without announcing National Finance Commission (NFC) award was a sheer violation of the Constitution. The ANP president while talking to various delegations said that delay ...

BY MOHSIN DAWAR: On March 21, young men, affiliated with the Islami Jamiat Talaba, stormed an event organized by the Pashtun students to celebrate Jashan-e-Nawroz, a 5,000 year-old festival. It was our right to do so. We had been granted ...

KABUL: The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) chairman Shokrullah Atif Mashal says the agreement regarding bilateral series between Afghanistan and Pakistan cricket tams has not been fully finalized yet. Speaking to reports in Kabul, Mashal said the cricket boards of the ...

KABUL: Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) chief Gulbadin Hekmatyar’s secretary was gunned down in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, a party official said. Qaribur Rahman Syed, HIA spokesman, told local media that the incident happened in the Tajabad area of Peshawar, the capital of ...

KABUL: More than 100,000 Afghans have been forced to leave their homes because of war in 2017, the United Nations (UN) reported on May 29. Data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) showed that 103,229 ...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani on Tuesday expressed his anger at the lack of a response from the government regarding the Saudi Arabia-led 41-nation military alliance headed by former army chief retired Gen Raheel Sharif. “Why don’t ...

GERMANY: Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. “The times in which we could completely depend on others are ...

BY KADWAL: The British colonialists were angry because the freedom movement of the Khudai Khidmatgars, also known as the Red Shirts, was in full swing. After Peshawar and Utmanzai, Takkar was the stronghold of the movement and the British authorities ...

KABUL: Afghanistan, China and Pakistan have held their first round of trilateral Practical Cooperation Dialogue (PCD) in Beijing, the capital of China, a media report said on Sunday. The three countries agreed to promote practical measures for cooperation and exchanged ...

Women rule in Muslim countries is a unique and refreshing idea. If we look back in history, we find the Razia Sultana, Benazir Bhutto, Khalida Zia and others who have managed to walk the corridors of power with pride. In ...