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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL:  Daesh is recruiting children and forcing girls to marry its fighters in eastern Nangarhar province, locals said. Local tribal elders said the multinational terror group had executed several people including civilians and unleashed a new wave of violence. Haji Azim Khan, a tribal elder in Achin district, …

By Farhad Naibkhel-Psychologists say that when children play with toys, they are actually exploring the world, but on a manageable scale. Many of the most popular toys available in the country’s markets are miniature versions of adult tools. When children play with these toys, they are actually making sense of …

By M. Nadeem Alizai-When you go for over 70 hours without sleep, your body starts to do strange things. Your body will be panicking and shutting down. Fatigue will consume you. Ringing in your ears will be so loud that you cannot hear even your own voice. Your body will …

Militants attacked a heavily-guarded Pakistan Air Force base in Badhaber area on the outskirts of Peshawar early Friday morning, senior security officials said. Confirming the attack, ISPR said 13 militants had been killed so far and a clearance operation was underway. DG ISPR said, 16 bodies were recovered from a …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: The India government has constructed and provided modern medical equipments to the emergency and diagnostic wards of Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health. India’s Ambassador to Kabul Amar Sinha and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah inaugurated the newly constructed polyclinic and diagnostic center here on Thursday. …

Turkmenistan has announced to start work over the TAPI gas pipeline project in December. It is most important and mega regional project that would feed the energy-starving industries of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. However, strained relations between Kabul and Islamabad are creating challenges. Despite repeated attempts of the Afghan government …

On Thursday, Andrew Strauss, the former England skipper and newly-appointed director of England Cricket, will lead a Help for Heroes XI against a Rest of the World XI at the Kia Oval in the inaugural international Help for Heroes fundraiser, Cricket for Heroes. Some of the world’s finest cricketers, including …

Obama invite comes after Texas boy was arrested after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb by teachers and police. US President Barack Obama has issued a White House invitation to a Muslim schoolboy who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. Ninth-grade high school student Ahmed …

The use of tear gas and water cannon on people trying to break through a fence is criticised as “misguided and short-sighted”. Hungary is facing international outcry over the treatment of migrants after clashes broke out on its border with Serbia. Police fired tear gas after hundreds of migrants broke …

TEHRAN: Iran’s Ambassador to Kabul Mohammad-Reza Bahrami and Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani discussed rewriting border signs and documents in Kabul. The Afghan government plans to increase the number of its customs offices alongside borders with Iran to make more income and to fight drug trafficking from Afghanistan to narcotics …