Nine people, including four policemen, have been killed in an attack on a police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district. Five suspected burqa-clad militants, wearing suicide vests, were killed on Monday when they stormed the Police Lines, the district police officer said. The incident, in which four policemen were also killed, came shortly after the More
UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi says more than 123 million people around the world are now displaced due to war, repression, poverty and climate change. Addressing more than 100 diplomats and ministers in Geneva at UNHCR’s annual meeting, Filippo Grandi said strict measures by some countries to control their borders were no solution to More
Another three Afghans have returned to the country after their release from jails in Iraq, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Tuesday. MoRR reported the three individuals were freed from police custody following efforts by the Afghan Embassy there. It said these Afghans spent up to six months in prisons of Iraq More
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has declared the Pashtun Qaumi Jirga in Khyber ‘a success’, calling the assembly an effective step to solve problems in the region. Karzai’s office wrote he was happy with the “successful conduct” of the Pashtun National Assembly in Khyber and called it a good and effective step to resolve problems. More
The entire region is in a dangerous situation, Iran says, asking the countries concerned to do all they can to stop Israeli aggression in Gaza and Lebanon. Iranian Foreign Minister Sayyed Abbas Araghchi said this at a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani in Baghdad. A statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry said: More
Police have thwarted a third assassination attempt on former US president Donald Trump at a rally in California, a media report said on Monday. A Nevada man with a loaded handgun, ammunition and several fake passports in his vehicle was arrested at a security checkpoint outside the venue of Trump’s rally on Saturday night in More
Afghanistan-A are all set to take on Oman-A in their second match of the tri-nation T20 series today (Monday). The match would commence at 1:30pm local time, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) wrote on its Facebook page. The national squad trounced Hong Kong by seven wickets in their first game of the series on Sunday. More
A well-attended Pakhtun jirga, featuring political figures from different parties, has asked the Pakistani army and armed groups to leave the former tribal belt within two months. Addressing the concluding session of the three-day assembly in Jamrud on Sunday evening, Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) chief Manzoor Pashteen also proposed the resumption of movement across the More
The Pashtun Justice Tribal Jirga has kicked off in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, says a media report. The jirga entered its second day on Saturday with a speech from Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen, the BBC reported. Thousands of people from various parts of Pakistan have gathered at the event to discuss More
Pakistan is all set to host the 23rd meeting of the Council of the Heads of Government (CHG) of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on October 15 and 16 in Islamabad. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif would preside over the upcoming CHG meeting More
