KHYBER AGENCY – At least five tribesmen were shot dead and another sustained bullet injuries when unidentified armed persons opened fire at a group of residents of Tirah in Sukh, Kamr Kel area of Tehsil Bara, Khyber Agency. The political administration official on Wednesday told that the victim were belonged to Zakha Khel tribe and were returning back from Tirah when they were attacked. The unidentified attackers were managed to escape after committing the crime.…
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KARACHI: A commissioning ceremony of new Naval Base PNS Hameed was held near here in the coastal region of Sindh province on Wednesday. A press release of Pakistan Navy (PN) said that the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Rashad Mahmood was the chief guest on the occasion. Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah was also present in the ceremony. The commissioning of PNS Hameed is a landmark achievement for Pakistan…
At least 36 civilians, including children, were rescued from a Taliban prison during a special operation by the Crisis Response Unit (CRU) in southern Helmand on Tuesday night, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement on Wednesday. “Those released included children and men. They were rescued following a special operation in Greshak district of southern Helmand province,” according to the statement. There were no casualties among the CRU members during the operation.http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/28379-special-forces-rescue-36-civilians-from-taliban-prison-in-helmand
The loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group claimed responsibility behind the attack in Kabul that left at least 4 dead. ISIS loyalists operating under the name of Khurasan province issued a statement and released the picture of the suicide bomber who carried out the attack on Wednesday morning. The suicide bomber has been identified as Talha Al-Khurasani and the loyalists of the terror group have claimed that the target…
KABUL: Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah has said that he looks forward to his upcoming visit to Pakistan where he expects to have substantive discussions on bilateral relations, including on the common threat of terrorism. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had extended an invitation to Dr Abdullah to visit Pakistan and the invitation was given again recently. Talking to the delegates of the unofficial Pak-Afghan dialogue, Abdullah on Wednesday said the invitation had been pending…
Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s director of the Second Asian Department has declared the Taliban a potent armed political power, saying that the Taliban and Russia are bound by common ties in their campaign against Daesh in Afghanistan. He said that Russia completely agreed with the general perception that the U.S has no clear strategy in Afghanistan and it only has a military and political presence in the war-hit nation. “I agree with the view…
The first self-declared Islamic state in the post-colonial era emerged in 1979 between the region of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Iraq. The state continued the legacy of Reza Shah Pehalvi with the new political narrative of Wilayate e Faqih; a similar entity was produced by ISIS in 2013 under Baghdadi’s self-claimed Islamic State of Levant. Both the regimes, working under the guise of faith, have a huge number of civilian casualties and are abusive of…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has expressed concern over the violation of security cordon by the US embassy officials near a local five-star hotel. Pakistani authorities have asked the US Ambassador in Islamabad to initiate proceedings against the officials involved in the incident. According to a letter written by the Ministry of Interior to the high-ups of the US Embassy in Islamabad, on October 18, 2016, at around 9pm, five US embassy vehicles violated a security cordon…
KARACHI: Counsel for Dr Aafia has said, his client can be repatriated to Pakistan under an ordinance promulgated in 2002. The petition seeking repatriation of convicted Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the US to Pakistan, came up for hearing before Sindh High Court (SHC) today. Counsel for Dr Aafia said, “If attorney generals of Pakistan and US agree then convicted Dr Aafia Siddiqui can be shifted to Pakistan.” Deputy Attorney General (DAG) told that…
Karachi: Chinese Navy flotilla docked at Karachi port on Wednesday to participate in 4th Pakistan Navy and People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) bilateral exercises encompassing harbour and sea phases. The Chinese fleet includes ocean salvage and rescue ship Changxingdao and PLA-N ship Handan, which reached Karachi on a goodwill visit to Pakistan. Senior officials of Pakistan Navy and Chinese consulate were also present on the occasion. A statement issued by navy’s media wing said “these exercises…
When Italian physicist Giulio Chiribella came across a faculty job opening in a newsletter in 2011, he had no idea that Tsinghua University, a school he had hardly heard of, would be where he took his next step into the magical world of quantum mechanics. Then a senior postdoctoral fellow at a Canadian institute, Chiribella was struggling to find a tenured position in Europe or North America. But when he arrived in Beijing for the…