BY KADWAL: The British colonialists were angry because the freedom movement of the Khudai Khidmatgars, also known as the Red Shirts, was in full swing. After Peshawar and Utmanzai, Takkar was the stronghold of the movement and the British authorities were arresting leaders of the movement to crush it. On May 26, 1930 the British police officer Murphy arrived in ...

KABUL: Former President, Hamid Karzai expressed regrets over the death of politician Abdul Rahim Mandokhil, calling him a “tireless political combatant”. “With regrets, I learned that a great political, social and cultural figure of Pakhtoonkhwa, and vice president of the Pakhtoonkhwa National Awwami Party, Abdul Rahim Mandokhil passed away due to illness,” Karzai was quoted as saying by a statement. ...

Quetta: Former Senator and sitting Member of National Assembly (MNA) of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Abdul Rahim Mandokhail passed away here after brief illness. The deceased lawmaker was Deputy Chairman of Achakzai-led Pashtun nationalist party, PkMAP. He was elected as MNA from NA-260 Quetta-cum-Chaghi in 2013 elections. His funeral prayer will be offered in his ancestral Jhoke. Born on ...

BANNU, Pakistan — First Al-Qaeda bombs, Taliban suicide attacks, Uzbek assassins, U.S drone missiles, and Pakistani airstrikes and artillery barrages haunted them for more than a decade. Now unwieldy security procedures trouble civilians in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region as they attempt to pick up the pieces following years of exile and harsh extremist rule. Residents of North Waziristan, one ...

Local people stage rally in Swabi on Thursday to express solidarity with Mashal Khan. Dawn SWABI: The residents of Mashal Khan’s native town, Zaida, on Thursday gathered at the grave of the Abdul Wali Khan University student lynched by a mob over the alleged blasphemy lately and apologised to the deceased and his family for failing to ‘stand with them ...

 PESHAWAR: A First Information Report (FIR) was registered by police on Friday against members of a lynch mob that brutally assaulted two university students ─ killing one and injuring another ─ over alleged blasphemy in Mardan a day earlier. The FIR has been lodged in Sheikh Maltoon police station against 20 suspects, of whom eight have been arrested, Mardan District ...

Malala Yousafzai signs the guest book as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Speaker of the House of Commons Geoff Regan look on. —AP Malala Yousafzai is presented with an honorary Canadian citizenship by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. —AP OTTAWA: Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai received honorary citizenship in Canada and became the youngest person ...

Malala Yousafzai attends a ceremony with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres after being selected a United Nations messenger of peace in New York, NY, April 10.— Reuters UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres appointed Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai a UN Messenger of Peace on Monday to promote girls education. At 19, Ms Yousafzai is the youngest Messenger ...

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has selected Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai to be a UN messenger of peace, the highest honour bestowed by the UN chief on a global citizen. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced Friday that the 19-year-old education advocate will focus worldwide attention on the need for all girls to go to school. She ...

PESHAWAR: Canada’s prime minister has announced that Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai will address his country’s Parliament and receive the honorary citizenship bestowed upon her in 2014. Justin Trudeau says the 19-year-old activist will become the youngest person to address the body when she visits April 12. Trudeau said on Monday that he and Yousafzai will also discuss empowering girls through ...