The international community has welcomed the signing of the historic US-Taliban peace agreement as an important step in achieving a lasting political settlement in Afghanistan.

Women in Peshawar will be able to offer Friday prayers in congregation after a 25-year hiatus as the law and order situation in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has improved significantly following the launch of successful military operations, a media report said. Until the mid 1990s, women would offer Friday prayers in congregation at Sunehri Masjid (Golden Mosque) situated in the Peshawar cantonment but the practice was abandoned after terrorism badly hit the provincial capital, The Express Tribune said in the report.

The Afghans have appeared generally optimistic in anticipation of the long-awaited peace deal to be signed between the US and the Taliban in Qatar on Saturday following an experimental truce on week-long reduction in violence.

After returning to the US from India, US First Lady Melania Trump shared fond memories of her visit to India on social media and and left Twitterati impressed.

The Lahore High Court has sought replies from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and police on a petition against the holding of the Aurat March 2020, which is scheduled to take place on the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8

Bashir Ahmad, a shikara  operator on the Dal Lake, says he is finished. Every day he goes to the pictueresque lake, a Srinagar landmark, with his boat in the hope of finding some work but returns home in the evening empty handed without finding a single customer

A 24-year-old man stepped out of his house and was there for less than a minute when a bullet hit him on the right side of his stomach and he died on the spot. Similarly a 22-year-old went to buy milk but never returned.

Almost two hours after the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefed reporters about--among other things--Afghanistan’s situation, the State Department issued a release reacting to the Afghan Independent Election Commission's announcement of the final election results of the Afghan poll and called for a focus on peace rather than an engagement with electoral politics, Tolo News reported.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said the importance of US President Donald Trump's statement during his visit to India -- in which he said that the US has a "very good relationship" with Pakistan -- cannot be denied.

Pakistan media on Monday ignored all that US President Donald Trump said and focused on his limited positive reference to Islamabad, during his first state visit to India.

Making a strong pitch for enduring US-India friendship, visiting President Donald Trump told a 100,000-strong cheering crowd in Ahmedabad that he had come all the way from 8,000 miles across the world because "America loves India, America respects India and America will always remain a loyal friend to the Indian people. From this day on, India will always hold a special place in our hearts."

About a 100,000 people assembled to witness 'Namste Trump' mega event at Motera cricket stadium in Ahmedabad on Monday, danced on Bollywood, Gujarati songs being performed by various artists, as US President Donald Trump arrived in India .Garba gained momentum at the world's largest cricket stadium as President Trump, First Lady Melania, his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner came there for the first public event of their two-day stay.

As US President Donald Trump on Monday tweeted in Hindi, his followers in India went in celebratory mode, welcoming him to India.

When Donald Trump is greeted with a crescendo of“Namastes” when he lands in Ahmedabad he will be the seventh US president to visit India while in office

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has said that it was "extremely concerned" over the two man contenders -- President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah -- disputing the results of the September 2019 presidential election.