MARDAN: A policeman was killed and four passers-by were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at Katlang Bazaar in Mardan on Saturday. Mardan Deputy Inspector General of Police Jafar Khan told journalists that they had got information that two suicide bombers were on their way to Katlang Bazaar to carry out terrorist activities. He said that after getting information about the planning of mil ...

  PESHAWAR: Twelve people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked the vehicle of Commandant of Frontier Constabulary in the province Abdul Majeed Marwat in the high-security cantonment area here on Friday. Two women and two security personnel were among the dead and about 25 people were injured. According to an official, the bomber blew himself up when the FC commandant was going from his residence ...

  JANDOLA: Depending on whose perspective is given more credence, the gradual resettlement of South Waziristan’s IDPs is either one of the best-managed programmes for displaced persons in Fata or a veneer that barely masks deep unease among the Mehsud population. The army line is clear: 82,000 families, mostly Mehsud, left South Waziristan before the start of Operation Rah-i-Nijat in Oct 2009 and over ...

  KARACHI: Thousands of people who fled the war-ravaged South Waziristan for Karachi have not only left behind their homes, but their right to vote as well. The election commission has not bothered to come up with the laws needed for them to cast their ballots. “We haven’t been told to make [registration] arrangements for the displaced population living in the city,” said Mohammad Najeeb, the director ...

  ISLAMABAD: The country`s premier intelligence agencies fear increased terrorist activities in the border agencies of Mohmand and Bajaur and Dir, Swat and Chitral because of a recent nexus between the Tehreek-i-Taliban Swat (TTS) and the Afghan government. A report on military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) submitted to the Supreme Court on Tue ...

  LANDI KOTAL: The candidates for a National Assembly seat in Bara have demanded of the authorities to postpone the upcoming general elections in NA-46 constituency owing to threats from a militant group and inability of political administration to devise a foolproof security plan for electioneering. Although election campaign has not been launched in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, yet Lashkar-i-Islam, ...

  CHARSADDA: An explosive device went off near the house of former MPA Babar Ali Mohmand in Shabgadar tehsil of Charsadda district on Sunday. The blast partially damaged the house of Mr Mohmand. It was second blast outside thehouse of the former lawmaker during the past one week. Sources said that the device was planted by unidentified persons outside the house of Mr Mohmand that exploded with a big ba ...

  MIRAMSHAH: Six security personnel, among them an engineer of the Frontier Works Organisation, were killed and at least 10 others injured when a suicide bomber attacked a checkpost in North Waziristan tribal region on Saturday evening. Officials said the suicide bomber on board a water tanker rammed his vehicle into the Eisha checkpost on the Bannu-Miramshah road near Mirali. The killed officer was id ...

  MIRANSHAH: Four suspected militants were killed in a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) strike in tehsil Dattakhel of North Waziristan Agency in the wee hours of Friday, FCR Field Reporter told. According to details the UAV fired two missiles on a vehicle carrying suspected militants. As a result four militants were killed and their vehicle burnt down completely. The officials of the local political ad ...

  Peshawar: At least twelve people including one policeman and women were killed and more than twenty five sustained injuries in a car bomb blast in the internally displaced persons (IDP’s) camp in Noshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday. The blast occurred in front of distribution point of the World Food Program (WFP) where IDPs were receiving food package for their families. The injured we ...