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North Waziristan: Haqqani aide threatens to scrap peace deal
PESHAWAR / MIRANSHAH: Amidst continuing US drone strikes in tribal regions, a powerful Taliban commander has threatened to scrap a peace agreement signed with the government in 2007 and turn his...
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Cabinet meeting: K-P rejects two weekly holiday decision
PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) cabinet decided on Monday to repeal the federal government’s decision of observing two weekly holidays under an energy saving scheme. Briefing reporters after the...
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Residents move court to save 200-year-old tree
PESHAWAR: Residents in a Peshawar neighbourhood have had enough – they would not have a 200-year-old tree in their neighbourhood chopped down. To save the old banyan tree, residents of Rampura have...
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Spinal Beetle Drive: Nepalese journalist stresses on softer borders
PESHAWAR: Kanak Mani Dixit’s 1,800-kilometre-long journey to spread awareness on spinal cord injuries may not have achieved all its goals in entirety, but he is nevertheless satisfied. The Nepalese...
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Militancy: Eight killed, two injured in Khyber Agency blast
PESHAWAR: At least eight people, including five members of a family, were killed and two others injured when a roadside bomb targeted a vehicle carrying tribesmen in the remote Tirah valley of Khyber...
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Forgotten beauty: Death of the potters’ era
PESHAWAR: A rusting signboard inscribed with pottery in capital letters hangs aimlessly over a padlocked door in a narrow street of Shah Wali Qatal on the backside of the Qissa Khwani (storytellers)...
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Security operation: 10 dead in attack on militant hideouts
PESHAWAR: Gunship helicopters on Saturday pounded militant hideouts in the Taliban stronghold of Mamozai, Upper Orakzai Agency, killing at least 10 militants and obliterating at least three of their...
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Upper Orakzai Agency: 34 militants killed in clashes with security forces
PESHAWAR: At least 34 militants were killed on Monday in clashes with security forces in Upper Orakzai Agency, security sources said. Two military officers were also killed in the operation. Security...
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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa rally: Imran Khan insists he has no hidden backers
PESHAWAR: At his rally on Friday, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan reiterated that his party is not supported by “hidden elements.” “We have no unseen backers, the PTI belongs to the entire...
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Khud Kasha Dhamaka Yama: The song’s a blast
PESHAWAR: Over the past few years, the increasing trend of suicide attacks across Pakistan have made headlines globally and it was only a matter of time until these episodes were expressed through...
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Pakistan buries troops amid fury over NATO strike
PESHAWAR/MIRPUR: Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 of its soldiers killed in a Nato cross-border helicopter attack a day earlier. The incident, which was the latest perceived provocation by the United...
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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Of stigmas and taboos
PESHAWAR: Not many people have the strength to fight a global menace all by themselves, but people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) think otherwise. Zahoor Khan and his friends have embarked on a...
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Frontier crimes regulation: Centuries-old law will take time to ‘reform’
PESHAWAR: Nearly four months after the centuries-old Frontier Crimes Regulation was amended, analysts claim the reforms for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) are far from being...
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Development: Of a village that has gone completely mobile
PESHAWAR: Sambikhel, a small village on the outskirts of Peshawar, does not care about its ailing telephone exchange anymore. The exchange was set up in 2005 and had a capacity of 300 lines, all of...
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10th Muharram: Ashura passes peacefully in twin cities, other parts
PESHAWAR/GILGIT: Ashura was observed peacefully and with reverence amid tight security in the twin cities, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B), quelling fears of sectarian strife and...
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Tribal activist’s murder raises eyebrows
PESHAWAR: The recent killing of a human rights campaigner in the volatile Khyber Agency is bound to aggravate miserable human rights conditions in the region, rights activists fear. Zarteef Khan...
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Shattered dreams: Silver lining for village youngsters
CHARSADDA: There isn’t a single primary school in Hisar Dherai, a village in the suburbs of Charsadda. Hundreds of children from the village have to walk for about four kilometres along a...
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Horticulture: The rise and fall of the flower industry
PESHAWAR: A small street in the Qissa Khawni Bazaar in Peshawar hosts the city’s claim to a horticulturalist’s dream. Translating to Flower Street, the city’s flower business was based here until a...
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False alarm: Family retracts baby swapping claim at hospital
PESHAWAR: An inquiry report into the case of the two swapped babies at Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) has termed the role of the media in this case, “negative, sensational and of grave...
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Suicide: After failing in job hunt, gold medallist takes own life
SWABI: A gold medallist from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University lost all hope and took his life after he failed to get a job at his alma mater in his third attempt, according to his...
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