Afghanistan

Shazia Mehboob Islamabad: Illegal immigrants living in Pakistan have only 26 days left to leave the country or face imprisonment and deportation if they fail to meet the given deadline. With the deadline looming, federal and provincial…

APP Islamabad: Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to a stable, peaceful, prosperous and connected Afghanistan on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.…

News Desk United Nations: Marking the second anniversary of the Taliban’s 'fatwa' banning secondary education for girls, the head of the UN Fund for Education in Emergency Situations has called on the world community to ensure that every…

Mohammed Ajeeb Bradford: The suicide terrorist attack on Sunday, July 30 has accounted for 54 lives. This pattern of violence is becoming too regular and frequent. How has the country arrived at this violent juncture? Extremist…

News Desk Islamabad: Many of these glaciers are melting as a result of careless trekking because it is now a lucrative industry to take tourists up glaciers. Tourism must be eco-tourism if these glaciers are to survive as human progress…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The alarm bells are ringing, and with floods and upcoming monsoons, the picture appears bleak. The United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) has done the needful and it is time the government took measures…

News Desk Kabul: Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours in Afghanistan to shut within a month, the Virtue and Vice Ministry confirmed on Tuesday. Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Spokesman Mohammad…

News Desk United Nations: More than 2.4 million refugees will require resettlement in 2024, compared to just over 2 million in 2023, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report. In its ‘Projected…

News Desk Peshawar: Himalayan glaciers disappeared 65 percent faster in the 2010s than in the previous decade; the glaciers could lose up to 80 per cent of their current volume by the end of this century; the availability of water in the…

Seemab Khan Peshawar: Pakistan hatched out of the colonial egg on 14th August 1947, justifiably on an ideological basis followed by Islamic democracy and a desire for maximum provincial autonomy. The 1973 Constitution of Pakistan divided…