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By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said that his government has agreed to strengthen ties with Afghanistan “no matter who is in power” in Kabul. Inaugurating a two-day seminar entitled ‘Pakistan-Afghanistan Trade and Investment Forum’ here on Monday, Khan reiterated Pakistan’s deep determination to continue to play its role in peace and stability in Afghanistan. Khan said that his government was making efforts to improve links with Afghanistan’s business community in order to benefit from each other’s experience and stimulate trade and economic relations. The Prime Minister said that his government has agreed to improve relations…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan’s senior women’s national football team returned to action after a huge seven-year break as the Pakistan Football Federation held a training camp and posted about the same thing on social media on Monday. The federation has not been able to work properly and is currently being run by an ad hoc committee appointed by FIFA. The senior national women’s football team was out of action and last appeared in the SAFF Women’s Championship in November. Their last official match against Bhutan was 4-1. Since then, the women’s team has not played and registered in…

By Haroon Siraj Swat – A group of 20 students and youth volunteers, including five girls, had the opportunity to visit Pakistan Army Headquarters at Malakand Fort last Sunday to get an exposure and first hand knowledge of how defenders of Pakistan were risking their lives to safeguard the land of pure.The students were warmly received by the Army officers upon their arrival at the Headquarters. General Officer Commander Malakand Division Khurram Sarfaraz met the youth volunteers and had an informative session with them. Col Sohail, Col Naveed and other officers were also present on the occasion. General Officer Commander…

Our Staff Reporter Peshawar: A powerful IED blast killed seven seminary students and injured more than 110 on Tuesday morning at the Jamia Zuberia madressah in Peshawar’s Dir Colony. Mohammad Asim, a spokesperson of Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hosoital confirmed seven deaths and said the deceased were students aged between 20 to 25. “It was an IED blast which ripped off in the center of auditorium of Madrassah during a Quran class,” Indpector Genral of KPK police told a correspondent of Islamabad Telegraph over telephone. Mohammad Ali Gandapur, another senior police official, confirmed the details. He said two teachers were among…

By Special Correspondent ISLAMABAD: Crown prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad Bin Salman, one of the greates leaders of Muslim World, must be feeling uneasy as Pakistan is mulling to auction precious gifts he gave to Pakistani leaders. Government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is all set to auction precious gifts worth millions of rupees that Prime Minister, President, Bureaucrats and politicians received during foreign trips. Government didn’t give exact date of auction of these precious gifts. However, it will be first time in history of Pakistan that government will be auctioning the gifts. Official sources said, Prime Minister Iran Khan…

By Special Correspondent Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is once again drawn an inexplicable parallel between Islamophobia and the Holocaust. In a bizarre letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Khan requested a ban on islamophobic content equivalent to a ban on the social networking site for the Holocaust. In a letter he shared on Twitter, Khan said that “growing Islamophobia” is promoting extremism and violence across the world, especially through social media platforms such as Facebook. “I would ask you to put on Facebook a similar ban on Islamophobia and hatred towards Islam that you have set up for…

By Our Staff Reporter Lahore: Pakistan’s first-ever metro train service, the Orange Line, began its commercial operation in Lahore. As an early project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the Orange Line was designed by China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. and China North Industries Corporation and operated by Guangzhou Metro Group, Norinco International, and Daewoo Pakistan Express Bus Service, reports Xinhua News Agency. Over the five years of construction, the Orange Line has created more than 7,000 jobs for locals and will create 2,000 jobs for locals over the operation and maintenance phase. At the launch event on Sunday,…

By Our Staff Reporter MUZAFFARABAD, October 25: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said that talks with India would amount to sitting on the same table with the butcher who had slaughtered our children, and endorsing what India had been doing in occupied Kashmir.”The UN resolutions on Kashmir are the basis of our struggle, and the question does not arise of deviating from these resolutions,” he declared.Addressing a function held here under the auspices of Azad Jammu and Kashmir University to mark the founding day of Azad Kashmir government, he said that we are not…

By Special Correspondent Islamabad: Pakistan will remain on the ‘grey’ list of the FATF until February 2021, as it failed to fulfill six-core obligations of global money laundering and terrorist fundig, officials said on Friday. The virtual plenary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) held in the last three days concluded that Pakistan would remain on its ‘grey’ list. The decision was taken after a comprehensive review of Pakistan’s success in meeting global commitments and expectations on the war against money laundering and terrorist financing. “Pakistan remains in the increased monitoring list or the grey list,” FATF president Marcus…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters on Friday that he does not see an atmosphere for talks with India at this stage, citing what he called a ‘human lockdown’ in Kashmir. “In my honest opinion, I do not see an atmosphere for talks,” he said at the foreign office in Islamabad. Qureshi rejected suggestions that messages for talks have been sent from across the border. “There are some quarters who have been saying that talks should take place, but I do not think this the time, or the atmosphere is right for this,…