Blasts In Pakistan And Afghanistan Kill 14

At least 14 people were killed in two bomb blasts in violence-hit Pakistan and Afghanistan during a visit of Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, on Thursday. According to police officials in Dera Ghazi Khan, a central city of Pakistan, the bomb went off...

Top Commander Among Several Militants Killed in Pakistan

Pakistani security forces in a continuous assault killed at least 24 militants including a top commander on Wednesday in the restive Mohmand Agencty tribal area. Local officials said that security forces backed by gun ship helicopters targets several hideouts of the outlaws...

Go Ahead President Obama

The first great thing that President Barack Obama did after his inauguration in the White House was as an order to halt the procedures in the world notorious US detention facility of Guantanamo, Cuba. It is a great step to start with.   Now it seems that he is on his...

The Failures of ‘War on Terror’ Speak

Seven years after American forces ousted the extremist Taliban regime from Afghanistan to get the world rid of terrorism and extremism, and just before the historic event of Barack Obama stepping into the White...

Taliban Leader Says He Will Teach Lesson To Israel

Central leader of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baitullah Mehsud, said on Saturday that he will teach a lesson to Israel if it did not stop attacking on Gaza Strip. According to a report published on the Urdu language website of BBC, Mehsud called from an...

Afghanistan: under the spell of dollars

“My name is Samiullah. I am from Surkhrud district of Nangrahar province, Afghanistan. We live on Warsak Road in Peshawar. I work with an NGO in central Daikundi province of Afghanistan” the new student introduced himself. “So why did you choose to join this...

The Kacha Garhi of Pakistani Refugees: Visiting a New Tragedy

Only the color of the burqas (veils) was different in the Kacha Garhi refugee camp: the Afghan women wore blue and the Pakistani females from conflict-torn Bajaur Agency wear light khaki. The Kacha Garhi refugee...

American Ambassador Rejects Report about the ‘Tacit Agreement’ On Drone A...

Islamabad: The United States Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, has rejected a report by Washington Post alleging that the government of Pakistan and the United States had reached a ‘tacit agreement’...

Afghanistan: Acid Attack Affects Attendance at Girls Schools

The acid attack on school girls in the southern Kandahar province on Nov. 12 has affected attendance of students in girls schools in the city of Kandahar. A survey report shows that families of students are...

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