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Three people were killed and five others injured in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital Tuesday, police said. “Eyewitnesses say that the explosion took place in front of the building of the Human Rights Commission in Kabul city and the target of the attack was Haji Mohammad Mohaqeq, a member of Afghan parliament. It […]
A group of ten female Pakistani hockey players and two female coaches will leave for Washington this weekend to participate in the U.S. State Department’s Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative program from June 17-27 which aims to increase the number of women and girls involved in sports. “These high school athletes […]
FAO is calling for countries in the global ‘wheat belt’ to step up monitoring and prevention for wheat rusts – fungal diseases that do especially well in particularly wet seasons. Yields could be affected across North Africa, the Middle East into West and South Asia, which account for more than 30 percent of global wheat […]
Pakistani exporters have learnt about opportunities to sell over 3,500 products duty-free in the United States at a seminar jointly sponsored by the U.S. and Pakistani governments, the US embassy said Thursday. Exporters from Peshawar, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) participated in a video seminar that detailed the advantages […]
More than two decades after fleeing Afghanistan with her devoted father, Deeba* has been flown out of Pakistan to rejoin her brothers and sisters and receive specialist care for her disability. The 38-year-old, who suffers from an intellectual disability, arrived in New York earlier this year to a warm welcome from her siblings, who […]
A Taliban infiltrator killed at least six Afghan police men in southern Afghanistan early Thursday, officials said. The incident occurred in Helmand Province’s Musa Qala District. The Taliban claimed that an infiltrated policeman killed 10 police soldiers, including two commanders, and joined them. The head of Musa Qala District, Musa Kalim, told Afghan […]
Afghan Taliban Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack and killing seven Georgian soldiers in southern parts of the country. ISAF says that as a result of a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan some six ISAF soldiers were killed, but the Georgian army announced that seven Georgian soldiers were killed as a result of […]
The United States has imposed sanctions on Abd al-Hamid al-Masli, an alleged key bomb maker for al-Qaeda. The Department of Treasury on called the move the latest in its efforts to target the facilitators of improvised explosive devices (IED), as “Al-Qaeda continues to employ IEDs as the weapon of choice to kill and maim […]
Afghan Taliban Monday confirmed that their leaders paid two visits to Iran on the invitation of Iranian government. Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi confirmed the visit a days after Iranian Foreign Ministry denied any such visit. A delegation led by the head of political office of the Taliban in Qatar, Tayyeb Agha, […]
More than 15,000 people die every year because of cancer treatments rather than the illness itself, Lord Saatchi has said. The peer, who lost his wife to a form of ovarian cancer in 2011, is attempting to introduce new legislation to enable doctors to carry out alternative treatments without fear of litigation, The Daily […]
Pakistan on Tuesday expressed sense of shock the loss of life and property caused by tornado in the United States and sent condolences to the families. The tornado in the US state of Oklahoma killed at least 91 people, with at least 145 people injured including 70 children. “The Government and people of […]
A suicide bomber Monday killed a senior Afghan official and nine other people in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, officials said. Chairman of the Baghlan Provincial Council Mohammad Rasul Mohsini came under attack at the entrance gate of the Baghlan Provincial Council in Pol-e Khomri city, the provincial capital. A local official in Baghlan […]
