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The Supreme Court on Thursday suspended a Peshawar High Court (PHC) ruling that had granted Pakistani citizenship to an Afghan man on the basis of his marriage to a Pakistani woman.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday said that an agreement was about to be reached with Afghanistan, but Afghan negotiators backpedaled after contacting Kabul during the negotiations. A second round of talks between the two sides had begun on Saturday in Istanbul. The Qatar talks had come after days of fighting along the Pak-Afghan border and strikes by Islamabad on Gul Bahadur group camps in Afghanistan. The agreement reached in Doha extended an initial 48-hour truce and resulted in a temporary ceasefire, as well as a commitment to reconvene in Istanbul to work on mechanisms for lasting peace and stability between the two countries. Speaking on Geo News programme ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada ke Saath’, the defence minister stated that negotiators had backpedaled on an agreement “four or five times” after receiving instructions from Kabul. “Whenever we got close to an agreement — either in the last four days or last week — when negotiators reported to Kabul, then there was intervention and the agreement was wit...

Foreign Office Spokesperson Tahir Hussain Andrabi on Friday said that transit trade with Afghanistan would remain suspended for the foreseeable future till the current security situation was evaluated. Questioned about the status of trade with Afghanistan during his maiden weekly press briefing, Andrabi said: “Afghan transit trade is closed, is not taking place. It is not taking place because of the factors that you were aware of. There was considerable discussion on this question during last week’s briefing as well. Till the evaluation of the security situation, this transit trade will remain closed.” He said there had been continuous attacks on trading points at the border from the Afghan side that killed Pakistanis, adding that the lives of citizens were “more important than any commodity trade”. Andrabi added that Afghan soil should not be used for fomenting and sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan. Questioned about reports of the Taliban supreme leader ordering the construction of a dam on the Kunar river, t...

Islamabad police on Monday arrested 17 Afghan nationals residing illegally in the federal capital during an operation conducted in the Bari Imam area.

Security forces have arrested an Afghan suicide bomber from South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in an operation conducted by the Frontier Corps, uncovering links between the Afghan Taliban and the militant network “Fitna al-Khawarij.

Afghanistan pulled out of the series, citing the deaths of three Afghan cricketers killed in recent strikes

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mohammad Sohail Afridi on Friday declined to attend a top-level huddle chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to chalk out a course of action regarding the future of Afghan refugees. However, Mr Afridi was represented by Muzzamil Aslam, former adviser to the chief minister on finance, in the meeting. In a statement on X, the chief minister said that he had declined to attend a federal government’s meeting about agriculture and Afghan refugees on the ground that attending such meetings without policy guidelines from detained PTI founder Imran Khan would be an insult to people’s mandate. He hoped that the federal government would resolve the issue of his meeting with Mr Khan and direct relevant authorities to arrange his regular meetings with the party’s founder. Mr Afridi said that his legal team was approaching the Islamabad High Court and other forums on the matter. Hopes Centre will ensure his meeting with Imran in jail Earlier in the day, he was denied a meetin...

Federal govt orders repatriation of illegal Afghan nationals without any further extension ISLAMABAD - The federal government on Friday decided to ensure expedited and dignified repatriation of Afghan nationals without further extension.

Foreign Office says strikes in Afghanistan undertaken in self-defence Media reports claim Pak, Afghan talks set to start in Doha Defence Minister says no delegations will go to Kabul Wherever the source of terrorism lies, it will have to pay heavy price: Kh Asif.

Warns against harbouring or sheltering illegal Afghan residents

K-P CM defends skipping federal meeting on Afghan refugees

Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar has criticized Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi for skipping a high-level meeting on the repatriation of Afghan refugees, calling his absence “political point-scoring.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed all the provincial governments as well as federal and provincial institutions to work together to ensure the swift repatriation of Afghan nationals residing illegally in Pakistan.

Shehbaz Sharif says Pakistan wants permanent end to terrorism originating from Afghanistan Pak Armed Forces forcefully responded to Afghan aggression under leadership of Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir.

An Afghan man accused of a deadly knife attack on a group of toddlers in Germany went on trial on Thursday, nine months after an incident that inflamed a heated pre-election debate on immigration. Germany was shocked by the stabbing spree that killed a two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man who tried to protect the children and left three others wounded in the southern city of Aschaffenburg. Five toddlers from a kindergarten class were in a public park, accompanied by two teachers, when the assailant attacked them with a kitchen knife. The suspect arrested at the scene of the January 22 attack has been only partially named, in line with usual practice by the German judiciary, as 28-year-old Enamullah O. He has a long history of mental illness, and prosecutors said an expert assessment concluded his psychiatric state meant he was not criminally responsible. The public prosecutor’s office has previously said there was no indication the suspect acted out of extremist or terrorist motivation, and they were seekin...

Pakistan’s federal authorities have ordered the immediate closure of all Afghan refugee camps in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, directing refugees to return to Afghanistan.

The Federal Ministry of Interior has convened a high-level meeting today to decide the future of Afghan nationals residing in Pakistan under Proof of Registration (POR) cards.

PESHAWAR - The recent unprovoked cross-border firing by Afghan forces on multiple Pakistani checkposts has sparked serious concerns among foreign relations and defense experts, who have termed it a blatant violation of the United Nations (UN) Charter and the Doha Agreement.

In response to unprovoked firing by Afghan forces along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the Pakistan Army launched a decisive retaliatory operation early Sunday, destroying several Afghan posts and capturing 19 key positions, besides inflicting heavy losses on Afghan troops and militants.

Pakistan Army, in a retaliatory response to unprovoked aggression by Afghan forces, has destroyed multiple posts used to facilitate terrorist activities against Pakistan.