CHITRAL: The deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral on Monday appeared before a civil court that had issued his arrest warrants for allegedly harassing a bailiff and defying its orders. The senior civil judge had issued the arrest warrants for Deputy Commission Hassan Abid, who had allegedly harassed a bailiff and defied court orders.He appeared in […]
The Taliban have banned barbershops in a southern Afghanistan province from shaving or trimming beards, claiming their edict is in line with Islamic, law. The order in Helmand province was issued on Monday by the provincial Taliban government\’s vice and virtue department to barbers in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital. \”Since I have heard (about
By David Zucchino On Saturday morning, a former interpreter for an American company in Kabul plunged into a mass of humanity outside a gate at the Kabul airport with her family in tow. Even as she was jostled and elbowed by people in the throng, she pushed ahead, desperate to secure a flight out of the
US and Nato troops are finally withdrawing from Afghanistan after 20 years of war. The Taliban, who they came to defeat, are rapidly retaking territory across the country, BBC reports. How has the war changed Afghanistan, and what comes next? Are the Taliban back? The Taliban – a fundamentalist Islamist militia – were forced from
More than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the border into Tajikistan on Sunday following Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said, dawn.com reports. The crossings underscore a rapidly deteriorating situation in the country as foreign troops near a complete withdrawal after 20 years of war in Afghanistan. Hundreds of Afghan security force
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.
PESHAWAR: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has developed the Monsoon Contingency Plan-2021 wherein it has declared eight districts of the province as high-risk areas for the upcoming rainy season. The high-risk districts are: Charsadda, Dera Ismail Khan, Shangla, Upper Dir, Nowshera, Swat, Chitral Upper and Chitral Lower, according to a statement issued here. 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
Saudi women can now live on their own without requiring the consent of their father or male guardian after a new legal amendment by the Kingdom, Gulf News reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Saudi legal authorities removed paragraph (b) from Article 169 of the \”Law of Procedure before Sharia Courts\” which stated that an adult single,
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Sicilian Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca, whose grisly crimes include having a child\’s body dissolved in acid, has been released from prison, BBC reported. Dubbed the \”people slayer\”, Brusca has confessed to his role in over 100 killings, including the assassination of Italy\’s top anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone. But Brusca became an informant, helping prosecutors hunt
