Posts published in “Day: March 24, 2016”

Pakistan has endured human, material, psychological and subsistence set back of colossal enormity for carrying forward the US navigated and Nato piloted war on terror in this region since 9/11. Entire squad of the perpetrators of twin-tower massacre belonged to Arab world, trained in the US by the American flying clubs but not a single individual from Pakistan or Afghanistan could be blotched till today for involvement in this history making barbarism. These two countries…

A Taliban group commander affiliated with Mullah Mohammad Rasool has declared Jihad against Taliban’s self-declared supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in northwestern Badghis province of Afghanistan. The Taliban commander, Mullah Ghafoor Tufan, has accused Mansoor of working for Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) and murdering several Taliban leaders. He has also accused Mullah Mansoor of killing the Taliban group founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, a claim which the Taliban dissident leaders were making following his death.…

The Hezb-e-Islami party led by the notorious militants leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is seeking power-sharing with the Afghan government in exchange for peace deal, it has been reported. The Afghan high peace council is busy negotiating peace deal with the delegation of Hezb-e-Islami party sent by Hekmatyar on 17th March. According to the officials privy to the development, the party is seeking positions in the civil and security institutions of the country. “At this stage, Hezb-e…

By MUJIB MASHAL and JAWAD SUKHANYAR KABUL, Afghanistan — In northern Afghanistan, a dispute over billboard portraits of the country’s vice president has inflamed tensions between two of the most powerful regional strongmen, exposing internal political strains even as the government faces a dire challenge from Taliban offensives. On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters marched in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh Province, expressing outrage that photos of Abdul Rashid Dostum, the vice…

A Chinese aviation executive has pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack and steal sensitive data from Boeing and other US defence contractors, the US Justice Department has revealed. The guilty plea by Su Bin, who was arrested in Canada in July 2014, comes during strained relations between the US and China over cyberespionage. US prosecutors have been bringing more criminal cases against what American officials allege is rampant Chinese industrial espionage of civilian and military…

“Instead of viewing the Iranian President’s visit to Pakistan as a normal diplomatic occurrence, we must view it as an opportunity to move forward our bilateral relations by many leaps,” the Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR) said ahead of the visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is due on Friday. The brief written by Pakistan’s former Ambassador to United States Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, asserts that Pakistan must prioritize its “own national interests above those…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani businessmen will open letters of credit (LCs) for imports from Iran in euros instead of dollars as some US sanctions are still in place that could obstruct payments to Tehran. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) told the Ministry of Commerce and other stakeholders in a recent meeting that it was not possible at this stage to open LCs in dollars in trade with Iran, a senior officer in the ministry told The…

By Abid Hussain | Umer Farooq | Ghulam Dastageer | Sher Ali Khan Bushra Cheema studied at a convent school and went on to get an MPhil degree in Islamic Studies from Punjab University. In the 1990s, she married Khalid Cheema who at the time was working as a marketing executive in Lahore. He was a well connected man and had friends and relatives among the city’s elite, people close to him say. Soon after…