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Pak minister among 8 killed in Taliban attack

Bashir Ahmed Bilour, a leader of Pashtun nationalist party, was among the eight killed during Taliban's suicide attack at Peshawar on Saturday. The veteran politician was attending a gathering of......

India supported Pakistani Taliban, Pashtuns?

United Arab Emirates security officials believed that India along with Iran had supported the Pakistani Taliban and Pushtun separatists, even as US suggested that UAE was a source of funding for......

View: Call for Pashtun nation is not far away

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his infinite wisdom has put Balochistan on the Indo-Pak agenda. But why stop at Balochistan? Just as Balochistan was annexed by Pakistan in 1948, the Pashtun......

After Baitullah, what?

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a united front of over 20Taliban groups operating autonomously in different Pashtun tribal areas, was formed on December 14,2007, at a secret meeting held......

Fallujah '03-04 replay in Pak Pashtun belt

The situation in the Pashtun belt of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas and the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan has rapidly deteriorated after the commando raid on the Lal Masjid of......

BRICS, by the signposts

The third BRIC summit in Sanya, China, on Thursday will have a new member: South Africa. Ten years after Goldman Sachs drew up the concept, BRIC has become something of an international......

British Queen seeks a pay rise!

The British Queen is seeking a multi-million-pound "pay rise" for the first time in 20 years to carry out her public role, a media report said. Buckingham Palace officials have demanded a seven......

Will these hot new girls score in B-Town?

Every year Bollywood sees a deluge of new talent hoping to make it big. This year too, we see a new crop trying their luck. Here's a look at the gorgeous few that caught our attention. Nargis......

Listening to Sonam Kapoor's Aisha

Here's what your favourite celebrities have been up to. Sonam Kapoor gestures at the music launch of her upcoming movie, Aisha on Fever 104 FM, in Mumbai on Thursday. ...

Vettori unhappy over 'used wicket' for semi-final

The World Cup semi-final between Sri Lanka and New Zealand will be played on the same slow strip on which the hosts steamrolled a jaded and tired England, and Kiwi skipper Daniel Vettori is not......

Canadian duo upstage Russian figure skaters

Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir wowed the fans and judges with their sultry Flamenco moves on Sunday to upstage Russian favourites Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin in the Olympics ice dance......

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Q. He was a devout follower of Mahatma Gandhi and a great Pashtun political and spiritual leader. Who is he?
Francisco: A. more

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Q. WHAT IS DURAND LINE ?
Ankit Shivam: A. Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a Pashtun political and spiritual leader of India. He was widely respected for his non-violent resistance to the British's...... more

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Q. From where Idea of Sir name KHAN came ?
Azam Khan: A. The Durand Line refers to the 2,640 kilometers (1,640 mi) long porous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was established after an 1893...... more

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For lack of leadership, a battle was lost

The Awami National Party (ANP), the political legacy of "Frontier Gandhi" or Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, entered Elections 2013 with a huge... ...

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/for-lack-of-leadership-a-battle-was-lost/article4740235.ece

Why India is concerned about supplying arms to Afghanistan

Kasim was killed, and three other Afghans injured, in clashes that went on for six hours. Protestors have since marched through Afghanistan's... ...

http://www.firstpost.com/world/why-india-is-concerned-about-supplying-arms-to-afghanistan-800711.html

Applying early lessons to build Afghan security

As a young Army Green Beret major in December 2001, Don Bolduc fought shoulder to shoulder in an offensive against Kandahar, the Taliban's... ...

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can security forces deliver post 2014?

Kabul: Every year as the snow melts, groups like Taliban and its affiliates, the Haqqani network, as also the Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) cross over from... ...

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Hindus living 'dangerously' in Balochistan

Islamabad, May 19 (IANS) Though Hindus have richly contributed in the economic prosperity and development of Pakistan's restive Balochistan... ...

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2013/05/19/170--Hindus-living-dangerously-in-Balochistan-.html

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