equality, freedom, rights and social justice for all.A spokesman for the NRF, Ali Maisam Nazary, has

States and other governments to grant legitimacy to the Taliban — or anyone other than Mr.... Nazary

“ People are leaving the areas because of the fighting, ” said one, who asked not to be named. Another said NRF fighters set a Taliban vehicle alight.A local Taliban commander confirmed there was fighting with NRF fighters.... “ But we have not been surrounded or ambushed, ” Dad Mohammad Batar said. Published in Dawn, May 8th, 2022....

SAO PAULO: The longest hiatus in Brazilian initial public offerings( IPOs) in at least two decades is likely to come to an end as early as the second quarter, according to investment bankers. After a more than two-year drought, underwriters from Bank of America Corp( BofA) to Morgan Stanley expect activity to pick up amid signs that the Federal Reserve is done with its hiking cycle and as interest rates decline at home. Companies from sectors such as infrastructure, retail, technology and real e

TEHRAN: An attacker stabbed to death an Iranian Shia Muslim cleric on Tuesday and wounded two others, one of them seriously, in Mashhad, said officials and state media. The assailant and four suspected accomplices were arrested after the bloody attack in the Imam Ali Reza shrine’s courtyard, said Mohammad-Hossein Doroudi, the chief prosecutor of the northeastern city.“ The attacker is a foreign national, ” he told the Fars news agency, without specifying the country. Amateur video footage showed

But it has since reopened and resumed diplomatic and humanitarian activities in the country. The Afghan delegation plans to “ exchange views with Japanese government officials during their stay ”, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported, citing unnamed Afghan diplomatic sources. Japan’s foreign ministry could not immediately comment on the visit when contacted by AFP....

International aid came to a sudden halt and the US has frozen$ 9.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets held overseas. Hunger now threatens 23 million Afghans, or 55 per cent of the population, according to the UN, which says it needs$ 5bn from donor countries this year to address the humanitarian crisis in the country. The visit from Sunday to Tuesday will see meetings between the Taliban, Norwegian authorities and officials from a number of allied countries including Britain, the European Uni

KUALA LUMPUR: The Immigration Department detained 49 foreigners in a raid on an Ampang condominium on Friday( June 3). Federal Territories Immigration Department director Syamsul Badrin Mohshin said 71 Immigration enforcement personnel members together with Selangor Immigration Department conducted the raid at around 11pm on Friday." We checked 205 individuals, including 196 Afghan nationals; 97 men, 74 women and 31 children.... We also checked five Libyan women and a Libyan man as well as two

THE TALIBAN have retreated in the face of an embarrassing defeat by Afghan resistance forces, it has been claimed. Opposition fighters pushed back against the Taliban in the Panjshir valley-the last region holding out against the fanatics-threatening their hopes of a unified country.... We have local people as well," a source told The Sun Online." It is not ordinary resistance.... It is the resistance of thousands of trained forces who are familiar with every inch of the soil and who has excel

The Taliban were left with a lot of American military equipment after their withdrawal( Image: Getty) An Al-Qaeda inspired plot in London in 2005 killed 56 people( Image: Getty) And he warned London: “ There has been a distribution of passports to terrorists.... It serves their purpose of expanding their form of so-called Government.“ They have provided weapons, training centres, to terrorists.... This is not something that we are making up.“ We’ve been saying this for the past two and a half