Terrorist killed in North Waziristan clash
Security forces on Monday killed one terrorist and injured two others during an exchange of fire in general area Spinwam in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the military said in a...
View ArticleParents urge govt to revoke fee hike
Parents on Monday demanded of the government to reverse recent fee hike at Mahmood Cadet College, Bajaur. In a press conference at Bajaur Press Club on Monday, Omar Khattab and other parents of...
View ArticleAfridi finds home in PML-N
In a significant political development, former Member of National Assembly (MNA) Shah Ji Gul Afridi has announced the merger of his political party Tehreek e Islahat Pakistan Party into Pakistan Muslim...
View ArticleK-P to unveil interim quarterly budget
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is preparing to present an interim quarterly budget for the second time in five years. In the previous general elections held in June, the caretaker government led by Justice...
View Article‘Parliament to decide on potential poll delay’
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday instructed the party's organisations in the four provinces to prepare for the general elections and emphasised that if the polls...
View ArticleDI Khan hospital gets plastic surgery unit
Minister of State for Poverty Alleviation and Social Security Faisal Karim Kundi here on Tuesday inaugurated the burns and plastic surgery unit at the Mufti Mehmood Hospital in Dera Ismail Khan. Former...
View ArticleK-P Police fail to uproot illegal abortion clinics
Towards the end of last month, Gurria, a victim of rape, accompanied with her mother, sought the help of a midwife to abort the fetus that had developed inside her, at an illegal abortion clinic in the...
View ArticleK-P seeks enhanced share under NFC
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has demanded enhanced share under National Finance Commission (NFC) on the ground that its population has increased after the merger of erstwhile Fata five years ago....
View ArticleDairy farmers of NMDs trained in animal husbandry
USAID’s Economic Recovery and Development Activity (USAID-ERDA) organized specialized trainings for veterinary officers of the Livestock and Dairy Development Department and small-scale dairy farmers...
View ArticleProvince-wide dengue awareness drive
The Relief, Rehabilitation & Settlement Department is leading an impactful awareness campaign to prevent dengue across educational institutions and public spaces throughout the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
View ArticleWater conservation projects reviewed
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Abdul Haleem Qasuria chaired a meeting regarding the ongoing development projects of Soil and Water Conservation in the province...
View ArticleWB okays $200m for K-P flood victims
The World Bank has approved $200 million in financial assistance for Pakistan for the reconstruction, rehabilitation, and development of the rural areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), which were...
View ArticleNMD students complete special mining training
The Construction Technology Training Institute (CTTI) in Islamabad on Friday held a certificate distribution ceremony for students of the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) after they...
View ArticleK-P biosphere sites join UNESCO list
UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) programme has approved the designation of 10 new biosphere reserves in 9 countries, including two in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and one transboundary...
View ArticleK-P SSP nominated for award by Int'l Association of Women Police
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sonia Shamrooz Khan from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has been nominated for an award by the International Association of Women Police for her excellent policing and...
View ArticleEx-PTI MPA booked for ‘masterminding’ Radio Pakistan attack
A former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) provincial lawmaker has emerged as the prime suspect in the attack on Radio Pakistan building in Peshawar on May 10 that transpired following the arrest of party...
View ArticleTurkish companies invited to invest in K-P
The Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan, Dr. Mehmet Pacaci, called on Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Minister for Commerce and Technical Education, Adnan Jalil, at the Civil Secretariat in Peshawar to discuss...
View ArticleWork begins to restore flood-hit Swat roads
K-P Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhary has announced urgent measures for the restoration of Bahrain Bazaar Road, which was severely affected by recent flash floods. The government machinery has...
View ArticleNew initiative to tap into Buddhist heritage
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed the development of a comprehensive strategy to promote Gandhara tourism in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). The Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Taskforce on...
View ArticleK-P to get Rs90 billion for war on terror
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) is expected to get Rs90 billion for war-on-terror which is one per cent of the total national resources. It was in the year 2010 that the 7th National Finance Commission...
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