The last US and Nato forces have left Afghanistan\’s Bagram airbase, the centre of the war against militants for some 20 years, US officials say, BBC reported. The pull-out could signal that the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan is imminent. President Joe Biden has said US forces will be gone by 11 September. […]
A highly awaited US intelligence report on dozens of mysterious unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings said most could not be explained, but did not rule out that some could be alien spacecraft, dawn.com reported. The unclassified report said researchers could explain only one of 144 UFO sightings by US government personnel and sources between 2004 and 2021,
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The Taliban captured Afghanistan\’s main border crossing with Tajikistan, officials said on Tuesday, with security forces abandoning their posts and some fleeing across the frontier, dawn.com reported. The seizure of Shir Khan Bandar, in the far north of Afghanistan, about 50 kilometres from Kunduz city, is the most significant gain for the Taliban since the
Muezzins issuing high-decibel calls to prayer have long been part of Saudi identity, but a crackdown on mosque loudspeakers is among contentious reforms seeking to shake off the kingdom\’s austere image, an AFP report in dawn.com says. Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest Muslim sites, has long been associated with a strain of Islam known
BOONI: Police have arrested the stepmother of a teenage boy who committed suicide by jumping into the river in Sonoghur on June 9 after being mistreated by the woman. Before jumping into the river from a bridge, the 17-year-old had called a friend and told him about his extreme step due to bad treatment
The big worry for most people thinking about buying an electric car is how to charge the thing, reports BBC. But the real question you should be asking is how you\’re going to refuel your petrol or diesel vehicle if you don\’t go electric. That\’s because electric cars are going to send the petrol station
Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: The far-flung Upper and Lower Chitral districts of KP have reported the highest inoculation rate in the whole province, dawn.com reports. According to a government report, the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine has been administered to Upper Chitral’s 30 per cent targeted population of above 18 years of age, the highest rate
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CHITRAL: Former MNA Shahzada Iftikharuddin on Saturday called upon the prime minister and the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to order immediate rehabilitation of the Chitral-Mastuj road that was washed away by the river near Reshun on Friday night. He also demanded emergency relief for the residents who have lost their properties. The erosion of
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BOONI: Upper Chitral cut off. Lower and Upper Chitral disconnected from each other after the only road crumbled to river erosion in the south of Reshun on Friday night. Hundreds of vehicles going towards the down country were stranded at Reshun on Saturday morning. The erosion of the road has also cut off link between
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Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Friday presented the Rs8.48 trillion federal budget for fiscal year 2021-22 (FY22) in the National Assembly, revealing that the government had allocated Rs2,135 billion under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) – an increase of 37 per cent from last year\’s development allocations, dawn.com reports. Leader of the Opposition in
