Ineffectiveness of SAARC and recommendations to make it effective
Bhakhtawar Liaquat | The cause of the SAARC’s institutional dysfunction can be traced in the Indian hegemonic designs and its indifferent behavior towards Pakistan and...
Afghanistan to host Bangladesh T20 series in India
AFP | Afghanistan will host Bangladesh for three Twenty20 internationals in India next month, the country's cricket board chief said. The Afghanistan cricket team, which has...
Pakistan & Afghanistan are on road to peace but it’s bumpy
News Analysis | Pakistan’s Western neighbor, Afghanistan has been in constant, never-ending war from as early as the 1980s to this day with sporadic patches...
Afghan Taliban announce fresh offensive in apparent snub to peace efforts
AFP | The Taliban launched their annual spring offensive on Wednesday, in an apparent rejection of calls for the militants to take up the Afghan...
Kabul under attack once again as suicide bomber targets voter registration office
News Analysis | Melancholy surrounds upcoming parliamentary elections, which are already late by 3 years, in Afghanistan as a new wave of violence erupts all...
Afghan girl spends life disguised as ‘son’ her parents always wanted
AFP | Sitara Wafadar yearns for long hair like other girls. Instead, the Afghan teenager has disguised herself as a boy for more than a...
Afghanistan returns bodies of five martyred soldiers
News Analysis | Afghani tribesmen have handed over the mortal remains of the five Pakistani soldiers of the Frontier Corps (FC), as well as an injured...
PM Abbasi receives a Guard of Honor upon arrival in Afghanistan
News Analysis | Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, in a scheduled official tour, reached Afghanistan today. Upon his arrival, he was given a...
Intriguing media silence over air strike killing Madrassa children in Afghanistan
News Analysis | As par the scanty reports, more than 100 people are reported dead so far after a religious ceremony in a Madrassa in...
IS in Afghanistan: An emerging threat in a volatile region
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The increasing power of the militant IS (Daesh) is immensely catastrophic for the war torn Afghan state and society. The...
International Community needs to unite to end Afghan war
Asia Maqsood | A declaration calling for an ‘Afghan-led and Afghan-owned’ peace process has been adopted in two-day mega international meeting on March 26-27, 2018...
Pakistan seeks political solution to Afghan conflict: Khawaja Asif
News Analysis | A renewed effort to establish peace in the war-torn nation of Afghanistan is taking shape. A two day peace conference began in...