MARDAN: Twenty-eight people, including a newly-elected member of the provincial assembly Imran Mohmand, were killed and over 57 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral prayer in Shah Zaman Qala village of Shergarh town in Mardan district on Tuesday. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Mardan Mohammad Jaffar told The News that 28 people had been killed and over 57 injure ...

  ISLAMABAD: Senators from both treasury and opposition benches called on Monday for bringing the security apparatus and intelligence agencies under civilian and parliamentary control to improve the law and order situation in the country. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan triggered a debate … Dawn. ISLAMABAD: The station house officer (SHO) of Aabpara police was suspended on Monday for delaying ...

  SWABI: Unidentified gunmen shot dead two male anti-polio workers here on Sunday.Superintendent of Police Mian Saeed Ahmad said that two gunmen opened fire on the male vaccinators, Aziz Muhammad and Muhammad Shiraz Khan, in Kandaro Banda in Pabbini village. He said the anti-polio campaigners were killed on the spot. “We have arrested four suspects and have launched an investigation into the incident,” ...

  HANGU: Unknown persons blew up the tower of a cellular company in Karbogha Sharif, official sources said on Thursday. The sources said the miscreants had fixed explosives to the tower of a cellular company in Karbogha Sharif that went off at 3am. The News. PESHAWAR: Residents of low-lying areas in Peshawar valley on Thursday started shifting to safer places as the floodwater entered some villages alo ...

  PARRACHINAR: Security forces have cleared Parrachamkani area of Central Kurram Agency from militants and the process of repatriation of internally displaced people’s would be started soon, FRC learnt. This was revealed by ‘73 Brigade’ Commander, Brigadier Tariq Aman while speaking to a gathering at Sadda Colony in Lower Kurram Agency here on Wednesday where a large number of Parrachamkani tribal elde ...

  PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban had been reached by proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to avert an impending clash among the groups that have amassed near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border over the weekend, Site, a USbased website, which monitors violence-related worldwide news, has claimed. It says that TTP has requested Taliban supreme commander Mullah Mohammad Omar to urgently intervene and sw ...

  JAMRUD: Four persons were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked three Afghanistan-bound Nato trailers in the Shagai area of Khyber Agency on Monday, official sources said. The armed men attacked the trailers with heavy weaponry, including rocket launchers, killing four persons, including two drivers and two cleaners. The News, The Frontier Post, Dawn, Daily Times, The Express Tribune. ISLAMABAD: T ...

  LANDI KOTAL: Security forces regained control of some strategic heights in Tirah valley after a fresh offensive in which 35 militants were killed, said a statement issued by the ISPR on Sunday. One soldier lost his life and five others suffered injuries during the operation which started on June 6 and continued till Saturday. Dawn, The News, The Frontier Post, Daily Times. LANDIKOTAL: Tribal elders a ...

  ISLAMABAD: Religious scholars from Pakistan and abroad here on Thursday declared that anybody attacking health workers assigned the job to administer polio vaccine to children will be considered as an infidel. Moreover, they also said polio vaccine being used in Pakistan was Halal, dispelling the impression as if the medicine was made of some material banned in Islam. Dawn. NOWSHERA: Chairman Defa-e- ...

  PESHAWAR: After the fresh exodus of the people from Kurram Agency`s conflict area Parachamkani, the number of families displaced from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) has exceeded 200,000, according to the relevant officials. Officials in Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA) said around 17,140 families had been displaced from Tirah valley in Khyber Agency and around 15,000 families had ...