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U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Ambassador Richard Hoagland congratulated 180 Pakistani graduate students who will soon depart for master’s or doctoral studies at American universities on U.S.-funded Fulbright scholarships. The Fulbright Program is the flagship academic exchange program of the U.S. government. Funded by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for […]
U.S. Ambassador Richard G. Olson joined Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, Executive Director of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission, and vice chancellors from all over Pakistan Monday to celebrate the completion of a U.S.-funded program linking top Pakistani universities with top U.S. universities to strengthen civic engagement in higher education curricula throughout Pakistan. The occasion also marked the […]
British prime minister, David Cameron, Saturday visited Helmand Province and met British soldiers stationed in this province, reports said. A government source in Helmand Province told the media that David Cameron reached Helmand Province late Friday visited the British Shorab base in Helmand Province. This source adds that he will meet Helmand provincial […]
U.S. Ambassador Richard Olson launched the $387 million Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Program on Friday. The Ambassador and the Sindh Secretary of Health, Mr. Inamullah Khan Dharejo, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for this five-year project at an event in Karachi. Under this initiative, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will support Pakistan’s […]
The United Kingdom has resumed the transfer of detainees to Afghan custody, the British embassy in Kabul said Friday after the Afghan authorities had called for the handover. “The UK Government is pleased that a UK court has approved the transfer into Afghan custody of those UK captured detainees who have given their consent,” a […]
Seventeen young photographers from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) displayed their work at the National Art Gallery in Islamabad and discussed the unique perspectives and insights they learned in a special training program led by photographers from the prestigious National Geographic magazine. The program was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development […]
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai have stressed the importance of Afghan-led reconciliation efforts, as a row over the Taliban office has derailed peace efforts in the country. In their talks via video teleconference, the two leaders reaffirmed that an Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process is “the surest way” to […]
A heavily armed group of Afghan Taliban launched a brazen attack on security forces near the President palace early Tuesday that lead to a several hour firefight, officials and witnesses said. Afghan officials claimed that they killed all the attackers. Reports said that President Hamid Karzai was in the presidential palace at the time of […]
Pakistan welcomes the opening of an Afghan Taliban office in Qatar for the purpose of bringing peace to Afghanistan, the Foreign Ministry has said. Taliban Tuesday opened a political office in the Qatari capital, Doha, to help start talks on ending the 12-year-old conflict. Top Taliban negotiators said they wanted a political solution that would […]
Pakistan extended the deadline for repatriation of Afghan refugees, which was set to expire on 30th June 2013. The decision was taken at the request of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a United Nations Agency working for the protection of refugees. Pakistan has been playing host to Afghan refugees since more than three […]
Some members of Afghan High Peace Council will travel to Qatar to hold formal peace talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday. “Members of peace council will go to Qatar to initiate peace talks with the Taliban,” Karzai told a joint press conference with the visiting NATO Secretary General Anders […]
Afghan Taliban say that they have shot down a helicopter of ISAF forces in western Afghanistan, but officials say that the helicopter made an emergency landing, reports said Tuesday. The Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi, said that the Taliban shot down the foreign forces’ helicopter during a clash in the Garani area in Balabolok […]
