The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto, on Tuesday briefed the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the country and said the direct talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban must begin as soon...
The Election Commission of Pakistan revealed in a recent report released on Tuesday that several Pakistani ministers – including members of National, Balochistan and Punjab assembly – own multimillion properties offshore. The report also declares 12 billionaires...
Each year more than 2,000 people are either killed or wounded in mine explosions in Afghanistan, with some mines dating back to civil war. Officials from the Afghan Mine Detection Center (MDC) on Sunday said each month up to 200 people in...
At least five people were killed and dozens other were injured in an explosion in Bannu in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The bomb exploded near the rally of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F)'s Akram Khan Durrani, who is contesting election against Pakistan...
Google Play Store services will not be available in Pakistan starting from December 1 as the State Bank of Pakistan has suspended the direct carried billing mechanism, thus effectively refusing to pay the service provider. 
In an open letter to the American public, the Taliban’s leader Mullah Abdullah Abdul Ghani Baradar urged the United States to abide by its commitments to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan in accordance with the US-Taliban peace...
Taliban has taken the control of Kabul as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani left the country.  The head of the Afghan National Reconciliation Council, Abdullah Abdullah said “Ashraf Ghani has gone out of the country,...
At least two Afghan security forces personnel were killed and six more injured as a result of two separate car bomb blasts in the southern province of Helmand, officials said. The Helmand officials said...
Reporters sans frontières (alias Reporters Without Borders or RSF) released a statement on July 8 where it warned the Pakistani government to not threaten the journalists living abroad. Citing a ‘leaked Pakistani government internal memo’, the Paris-based...
At least 56 were killed and more than 190 were injured in a suicide attack on the Kucha Risaldar mosque in Peshwar on Friday. The attack was carried out when hundreds of worshippers gathered in the mosque...