ANKARA, FEB 20 (DNA) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Turkish forces would soon lay siege to Syria’s Afrin as a cross-border offensive targeting a Kurdish militia entered its second month. On January 20, Ankara launched an air and ground operation supporting Syrian rebels against the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the Afrin region of northern Syria. Turkey views the YPG as a Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been waging an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984. “In the coming days,Read More

ISLAMABAD, FEB 20 (DNA) — State Minister for Interior Talal Chaudhary on Tuesday apprised the Senate that banning the issuance of licenses for automatic weapons was the government’s policy and it would be continued. Winding up discussion on a motion regarding the Government’s policy of banning the issuance of licenses for automatic weapons, the minister said it was a right step to purge the country of illegal weapons. He said Pakistan was only country in the world where ordinary people were given licenses of automatic weapons. The Prime Minister in hisRead More

ISLAMABAD, FEB 20 (DNA) – The National Accountability Bureau, in its Executive Board meeting, presided by NAB Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal, has formally approved to file corruption references against three former Generals. Former chairman of Pakistan Railways Lt Gen (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi, former Railways sectary Major Gen (r) Hamid Hassan Butt, former PR general manager Iqbal Samad Khan, ex-GM (operations) Khurshid Ahmad Khan, ex-member finance Brig (r) Akhtar Ali Baig, former director Abdul Ghafar, former superintendent Muhammad Ramzan Sheikh, former Telecommunications minister Lt Gen (r) Saeed-ul-Zafar, Ms Husnain Construction CompanyRead More