8,600 US troops will stay in Afghanistan: Trump

US President Donald Trump said that Washington plans to leave 8,600 American troops in Afghanistan, but suggested further cuts could follow – over 15...

Venezuela nurses turn to side jobs to survive economic crisis

AFP | Edgar Fernandez keeps a mariachi suit in a rusty wardrobe at the public hospital in Caracas where he works as a nurse, donning...

Hong Kong’s youth finds love amid time of tear gas

AFP | A gas mask lovingly adjusted, a hand squeezed before approaching police lines and a frantic search through swirls of tear gas -- Abby...

No negotiation on South China Sea: Beijing tells Philippines

AFP | Beijing told visiting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that its position on the South China Sea was not up for negotiation, a spokesman for...

Kashmir lockdown reduces tourism to zero

AFP | On Srinagar's Dal Lake, intricately decorated houseboats usually packed with tourists lie empty as Kashmir's tourism sector reels from a three-weeks-long lockdown imposed...

The story of two decades of US intervention in Afghanistan

AFP | The United States intervened in Afghanistan in 2001 to rid Al-Qaeda of its sanctuaries following the 9/11 terror attacks. After Washington announced on Thursday...

Pakistan’s turn for ‘Do More”, Urges Trump Admin for action on Kashmir

News Desk | Pakistan’s Ambassador to Washington, Asad Majeed Khan, on Wednesday, urged the United States and the international community to “do more” to pressurize...

Pakistan will come to a standstill on Friday to support Kashmir

AFP | Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called on the country Thursday to join mass demonstrations to protest Delhi's actions in Indian-administred-Kashmir as tensions between...

Assange Prison Conditions and Psychological Torture revealed

RT | Australian journalist and BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker John Pilger says the “psychological torture” of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues “unabated” while he remains...

Of BBC, Kashmiri doctor and Indian reactions on twitter!

News Desk | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) had pointed, in a report earlier this week, that Dr. Omar Salim, a Kashmiri doctor, in Srinagar, who...

No Room for Terrorism in Kashmiri Struggle for Freedom: AJK PM

News Desk | Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider, Prime Minister of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, has said that Pakistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir will not...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa boy Mashood Alam makes it to Hollywood

News Desk | A youngster from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bagged a lead role in the upcoming Hollywood short film titled ‘The Cure'. The 29-year old Mashood...