PESHAWAR (District Swabi): Former MPA Haji Shoaib Khan of Awami National Party (ANP) was shot dead on Sunday by unknown attackers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s town of Yar Hussain in Swabi district. District Police Office (DPO) Javed Iqbal told media that some gunmen entered Khan’s political office and opened fire at the former MPA. Khan, who sustained multiple wounds, was rushed ...

Qandeel’s brother, Wasim, was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning hours after he killed his sister. He was presented before the media by the police forces in Pakistan and in his confession before the media he admitted to the horrific killing of his sister. CPO Multan Azhar Akram told reporters that Qandeel was staying at her parent’s home ...

MULTAN: Popular social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has been killed in Multan, becoming the latest victim in the spate of “honour killings” that plague the country. The 26-year-old, who is popular for posting risque videos and statements on Facebook, was killed by her brother, Regional Police Officer Sultan Azam said on Saturday. Qandeel strangled to death by her brother Model asked ...

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Demand merger of tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa PESHAWAR: The All Fata Political Parties Alliance has to observe August 14 as black day if government fails to merge the tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Addressing at news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Thursday, All Fata Political Parties Alliance president Haji Iqbal Afrdi said that tribal people had already requested ...

BADIN: A woman succumbed to her injuries after being beaten with stones and bricks by her husband in Tando Muhammad Khan’s People’s Colony area on Friday, local officials quoted witnesses as saying. The 35-year-old mother of four was attacked with stones and bricks before her husband fled the scene, the officials said. The woman was being transported to the Tando ...

PESHAWAR: As active combat operations are reaching their ultimate end, the Army has assumed the monitoring role in education and health sectors in Fata, insist multiple sources. A relevant official confided to Dawn that political agents had received letters from the Corps Headquarters Peshawar informing them that monitoring teams of the army would visit schools, colleges and health centres to ...

BNP chief Akhtar Mengal, Asma Jahangir and SCBA Secretary Asad Manzoor participate in the seminar on Tuesday. — INP ISLAMABAD: Balochistan National Party (BNP) chief Akhtar Mengal has called the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) exploitative if it does not equally benefit all the provinces, particularly Balochistan, which is the epicentre of the project. Mr Mengal was speaking at a seminar ...

Radio Pakistan, a state-run media on Tuesday falsely misused the remarks of the US Department of State Spokesperson John Kirby about the Durand line. Kirby was wrongly quoted by Radio Pakistan that the US government recognized the Durand Line as permanent border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The falsely remarks by Pakistani media comes at a time when the US and ...

US: The former top American diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad has said Pakistan has been playing a dangerous game since the Taliban group was overthrown. In his testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Khalilzad said Pakistani proxies pose a severe threat to coalition and Afghan forces and civilians. “Indeed, Pakistani policy is the principal cause of the ongoing conflict in ...