Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Unidentified persons opened fire at the house of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Arbab Jahandad in Peshawar, police said. The attackers however fled from the scene after retaliation. Police reached the spot and collected a Kalashnikov and blood-stained clothes. Sources claimed that one of the attackers was injured...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) nominee Pervaiz Khattak was elected as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister on Friday. Khattak is the 26th chief minister of the assembly, Khattak secured 84 votes and becomes the 26th chief minister of the province. JUI-F candidate Mualana Latifur Rehman secured 37 votes. Prior to the voting, Pakistan Muslim...

Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to block two Facebook pages carrying blasphemous material within three days and sought explanation from PTA and the interior ministry on their failure to do so until now. Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Qaiser Rasheed also asked...

The announcement comes just weeks after the Afghan government launched a new campaign to immunise more than eight million children between six months and five years old throughout the country. It said it had trained 46,000 volunteers to conduct the campaign which is funded by the American aid agency USAID,...

PESHAWAR: The Interior Ministry of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has ordered to seal the Pakistan-Afghanistan Torkham border on May 11 when general elections will be held. Further in its order, the KP Interior Ministry has instructed the Additional Chief Secretary FATA to restrict the Afghan refugees to their camps from May 10...

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 April 16 — An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Iran-Pakistan border region at 1044 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The epicenter, with a depth of 15.20 km, was initially determined to be at 28.0559 degrees north latitude and 62.0804 degrees east longitude.Strong tremors of earthquake...

ISLAMABAD: Maulana Fazlur Rehman may be in deep trouble. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has found the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief to be a defaulter for not only filing income tax returns of the last three years in one day but also for forgetting to pay the fee for late filing....

BANNU: Two persons were killed and six others, including a former member of the provincial assembly (MPA), sustained injuries when a motorcade was targeted with an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Janikhel area in Frontier Region (FR) Bannu on Sunday. The sources said that former MPA Malik Adnan Khan...

Retired Justice Tariq Pervez will be the caretaker Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This was announced by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti at a news conference in Islamabad along with leader of opposition in provincial assembly Akram Khan Durrani. Hoti said Justice Tariq Pervez enjoys the reputation...

PESHAWAR: A cylinder exploded close to the home of Mian Iftikhar Hussain, a prominent provincial minister in restive northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding six people including three children, police said. The injured included three children, a woman and plain clothed policemen. Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) chief Abdul Haq told media...

BANNU: At least two policemen were killed and 18 others injured in a suicide blast that occurred within the limits of Saddar police station in Bannu. Police said the suicide bomber targeted police van, resulting two police official were killed and 18 other people sustained injuries. The van was also...