ICT magazine

ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi got offended on Thursday when he was asked if the US would press Pakistan to do more in war against terrorism during the upcoming strategic dialogue scheduled for March 24 in Washington.“Gone are the days when ...

The primary school for girls, which Angelina Jolie funded in Tangi, Afghanistan, is all set to open its doors to 800 students, according to a UNHCR statement. Jolie, the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, visited a refugee settlement in Afghanistan’’s eastern Nangarhar province and donated a whopping 75,000 dollars toward the school’’s ...

Washington, March 16 India has not abandoned the “path of dialogue” but possesses the capacity “to deal effectively with those that pursue destructive agendas” against the country, India’s Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said in a major address here Monday. Despite the provocations we have faced constantly from terrorists whose linkages we ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Thursday that Iran's support for the Taliban in Afghanistan is "pretty limited". Gates spoke Thursday during a stop at a U.S. military base en route to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized Washington with his own words, as he appeared at a news conference alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Earlier this week, visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused Tehran of playing a "double game" in Afghanistan – being friendly to the Afghan government, while at the ...

Congress voted down a resolution to pull out of Afghanistan today."Conventional wisdom" among many Americans - and congress members - is that we need to be in Afghanistan to protect our national security.Is it true?A Little HistoryBefore we discuss whe...

An infantry platoon of 25 soldiers of the Montenegrin military left for Afghanistan on Monday. There they will join the NATO peacekeeping operations.

RANA LATIF/ JAWAD R AWAN/ JAM SAJJAD HUSSAIN/KHALID MALIKLAHORE – Speakers at a special ceremony held in memory of late Hameed Nizami at Alhamra on Sunday were of the opinion that an independent, Islamic, democratic and welfare state was the cherished goal of ...

ISLAMABAD – India was the architect of the couple of fatal attacks that rocked two Afghan cities - Kabul and Kandahar - of late, killing about a dozen Pakistanis and Indians.Contrary to the prevailing assessments that reason Indian vengeance against Pakistan’s ‘aggression,’ this ...

Lord George Robertson, a former British defense secretary, said the planned Canadian pullout of combat troops next year is dangerously premature. Canada, despite its "robust" and "valiant" effort in Afghanistan, is among a group of countries contributing to a growing crisis caused by western allies who are failing to stay ...

The prime minister has visited British troops in Afghanistan as a row grows over his evidence to the Iraq inquiry. Gordon Brown's aides told the BBC he rejected criticism from two former Army chiefs that as chancellor he denied pleas to send more equipment to Iraq.

Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said in Tirana on Thursday that cooperation between region police is needed to prevent drug trafficking. "All reports, including the report of U.S. security services, say that the Balkans are a major transit area, and that almost 80 percent of all heroin which comes to ...

On May 23rd at 8am I will be running a 9k road race. The last big race I ran was Falmouth back in the summer, and I was looking for an event to begin this year’s warm weather with. My co-worker Adam mentioned that he was in for the Run ...

QUETTA - Five persons including four Pakistani construction workers were killed in an ambush near Afghan city of Kandahar on Thursday. Later, their bodies were handed over to Pakistani authorities at the border town of Chaman.According to reports reaching here, the victims were ...

Review of Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style (2004, Harper Perennial, Paperback)Virginia Postrel’s The Substance of Style is a book I’ve been meaning to read for a long time.  Postrel has a rare combination ...

KHAR – The security forces have concluded military operations against militants in Bajaur Agency after successfully overrunning Taliban and Al-Qaeda headquarters in Damadola.Local military commanders told a group of media persons on Tuesday that as many as 22,00 militants had been killed since ...

RIYADH (Agencies) – India is willing to walk the “extra mile” to open a new chapter in relations with Pakistan but it must act decisively against terrorism, Prime Minister Manm-ohan Singh asserted Monday. Addressing the Majlis Al-Shura or the Saudi Consultative Council here, ...

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit Kashmir valley in the wee hours on Sunday, but there was no report of any loss of life or damage to property. “The 5.7 magnitude quake, with its epicentre located in the Hindukush mountain range of Afghanistan, hit Kashmir valley at 4:51 ...

KABUL (Agencies) – Taliban fighters opened fire, hurled grenades and staged suicide bombings in central Kabul on Friday, killing 17 people including Westerners and Indians in one of the deadliest attacks on foreigners in the Afghan capital.The militia claimed responsibility for the attack ...

ISLAMABAD – Rather than doing something serious that might lead to the solution of the disputes between the two nuclear-armed South Asian states, India has handed over two more dossiers to Pakistan.On the other hand, sources from India informed TheNation on Thursday that ...