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Left with no choice: APS students to sit for exams despite doctors’ warnings
KARACHI: Ninety-three days on, the wounds of Army Public School (APS) victims are still fresh. Flashbacks still haunt the survivors and rehabilitation is still under way. Yet in the middle of perhaps...
View ArticleMQM does not want any confrontation with army: Altaf Hussain
KARACHI: A day after Rangers filed an FIR against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain for threatening their officials; the party leader said he does not want to fight with the armed...
View ArticleDrive suspended in Mansehra
PESHAWAR: Back to back attacks on polio teams in Bajaur Agency and Mansehra have resulted in the suspension of the essential drive in the latter. In Khar, Bajaur Agency on Wednesday, unidentified...
View ArticleThe home stretch: NWA IDPs begin registering for return
BANNU: As part of the long-awaited repatriation process, authorities in Bannu have started registering displaced people, yearning to return to their homeland in North Waziristan. On day one of the...
View ArticleTransitions: Self-preservation and the struggle for justice
PESHAWAR: Samiullah Afridi thought he had earned a new lease on life when he decided to officially distance himself from Dr Shakil Afridi’s case in 2014. However, on March 17, things took an...
View ArticleShocking revelations: MQM chief ordered KESC director’s assassination, claims...
Just hours before his execution, Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) convicted worker Saulat Mirza alleged in a supposed video confession that he killed former KESC Director Shahid Hamid on the directives...
View ArticleIn condemnation: Lawyers, civil society condemn Samiullah’s murder
PESHAWAR / CHARSADDA: Lawyers and civil society organisations condemned the murder of Samiullah Afridi, the former lawyer of Dr Shakil Afridi. The legal fraternity in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa boycotted...
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Blown out of proportion?: ‘Murad Saeed degree case was the result of an...
PESHAWAR: University of Peshawar Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Rasul Jan said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNA Murad Saeed’s degree case was the result of an administrative error and that the issue was...
View ArticleTaking action: Police arrest 11 suspected militants
DAGGAR: Police officials claimed to have arrested 11 suspected militants in Gokand, Buner on Wednesday and confiscated a huge quantity of modern and sophisticated weapons from their possession. Based...
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All the king’s men: PHC asked to unseat lawmakers over alleged nepotism
PESHAWAR: An application filed with Peshawar High Court has accused Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly lawmakers of nepotism and requested the court to unseat them. The application and the principal petition...
View ArticleJustice in process: Minor’s murderer arrested in Tank
DI KHAN: Police arrested a man on Thursday who was allegedly involved in the murder of a seven-year-old boy in Tank district. Speaking to journalists at his office, DPO Kafayatullah Wazir said Muhammad...
View ArticleLG polls: ANP, PPP, JUI-F to contest under one electoral symbol
PESHAWAR / MARDAN: The recently-revived tripartite alliance of opposition parties in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has decided to contest upcoming local government (LG) polls under one electoral...
View ArticleA welcome delay
The execution of Shafqat Hussain has been delayed, but not cancelled, and the next 72 hours may see his fate determined. His case has become something of a cause celebre both nationally and...
View ArticleViolation: Constable arrested for raping boy
ABBOTABAD: The police arrested a constable for allegedly raping a teenage boy. The medical report confirmed the child had been sodomised, said the City police. City police quoted Irfan*, a 13-year-old...
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Endangered species: Leopard dies of poisoning in Abbottabad
ABBOTABAD: The autopsy of a leopard which was found dead on Wednesday has revealed that the feline was poisoned, said Dr Muhammad Zafran Turk who is in charge of Government Veterinary Hospital...
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ABCDE…FIR: Four years of police occupation leaves school in ruins
HANGU: There was a time when Mughalkhel Government Primary School in Balya Maina union council, Hangu was abuzz with students, but then textbooks were replaced by FIRs and students with policemen. No,...
View ArticleFour arrested in connection with check post attack
GILGIT: Security forces have arrested four men suspected of sheltering militants who attacked a Rangers check post on the Karakorum Highway near the site of Diamer-Bhasha Dam. Suspected militants...
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Making a living: People with disabilities demand implementation of 2% job quota
PESHAWAR: To demand the implementation of the 2% job quota allocated for them, people with disabilities protested against the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government outside Peshawar Press Club on Thursday....
View ArticleDecision reversed: High court reinstates 796 prison warders
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday reinstated 796 prison warders whose recruitment was revoked by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government last month. Justice Roohul Amin Khan and Justice Syed...
View ArticleLouis van Gaal says Manchester United will be his last managing job
Loius van Gaal, manager of the English football club Manchester United, has announced that the hot-seat at Old Trafford will be his last as a manager. The Dutchman said in an interview on Thursday that...
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