PESHAWAR: The establishment of Malala University in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been refused by the Provincial Assembly. Earlier the provincial Assembly member from ANP Jaffar Shah and the provincial parliamentarian from PPP Nighat Orakzai had tabled a resolution in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly, proposing the establishment of a university in the province after the name of Pashtun Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai. ...

PARACHINAR: At least 25 people were killed and 62 injured on Sunday when a device containing about 35 kilograms of explosives ripped through a makeshift market in Parachinar town of Kurram tribal region, residents and hospital sources said. Officials said that the device kept in a sack exploded when a large number of people were buying second-hand clothes. A huge pall ...

ISLAMABAD: The director of the National Institute of Historical & Culture Research (NIHCR), a subordinate research institute of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), has been removed from his post abruptly. The rumors have it that the renowned historian had disagreed with the official history of Pakistan. Dr Shah was immediately removed after he gave a speech at the International Conference on Sindh, History ...

ISLAMABAD/RED MOSQUE: Pakistan on Saturday denied reports in international and local media claiming that officials from the United States (US) had a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif regarding the alleged link between Tashfeen Malik – the female shooter in the California rampage – and Lal Masjid and its radical cleric Abdul Aziz, just as the latter denied any link ...

ISLAMABAD: An angry brother shot his elder sister dead because she voted in Pakistani local elections after he had forbidden her to do so, police said today. The murder occurred in the town of Taxila 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Islamabad on Tuesday, according to officials. Danish Ali, 20, was furious because his sister Asif Noreen, a 32-year old ...

PESHAWAR: Head of Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan said that he had visited Kabul accompanying other Pashtun political leaders with a view to break the impasse on the peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Following his return from Kabul, Asfandyar Wali said in an interview with Mashal Radio that it is beyond what Sartaj Aziz is capable to clean ...

BANNU: By Gohar Wazir and Karim Ullah Khan The Federal Minister Akram Khan Durrani narrowly escaped an attempt made on his life when in the evening an improvised explosive device hit his convoy in Bakka Khel, Bannu.  According to the initial reports it was a remote-controlled bomb blast, in which two persons have died. Today when Akram Durrani was returning ...

ISLAMABAD: Head of Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan has met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his house yesterday to show his concerns to Nawaz Sharif over the government ignoring the construction of Western rout of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which will pass through two under-developed smaller western provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to the sources Asfandyar Wali ...

ISLAMABAD: On special invitation of the Afghan government, Central president of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan will visit Afghanistan on Thursday. Addressing a press conference after a meeting with Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, the ANP leader said that he discussed the Pak-Afghan relations, China-Pakistan economic corridor and FATA issues with the prime minister. He said that he ...

PESHAWAR: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has invited certain Pakistani politicians to Afghanistan for discussion on the prevailing situation in the region and the state of Pak-Afghan relations. Qaumi Watan Party (QWP)’s information secretary Tariq Khan told The News that their party head Aftab Ahmad Sherpao and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Sikandar Hayat Sherpao would leave for Kabul today on a three-day ...