By: Sadaqat Ghorzang Two years ago, when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 55-year-old Zahir, a resident of Kunar province, immigrated to Pakistan with his family of seven members to live a comfortable life but he got jailed. Zahir had to pay the house rent and expenses in a foreign country and was looking for a job, but the Pakistani police …

The Awami National Party’s senior leaders, office bearers and workers in Shangla, quit party in protest, after the party’s provincial president ousted the incumbent and farmer general secretaries from the party. The Awami National Party’s provincial president, Aimal Wali Khan had sacked the party’s current secretary general, Muhmmad Zakir Khan of Puran and Ali Bahadar Khan advocate, who served the …

Hafiz-e-Alpuri was a Sufi poet and scholar, but he was also a good calligrapher. Nearly over 300 years ago he wrote a manuscript of the Holy Quran in a calligraphic design but the work is so fine and intricate that it appears to be done by computer graphics. Alpuri was a well-known Pashtu Sufi poet. His full name was Abdul …