KHYBER AGENCY - The security forces on Saturday claimed to have killed three militants and injured four of them in jet strikes in Maidan, the far-flung area of Tirah valley of tehsil Bara, subdivision of Khyber Agency. Sources said the forces’ warplanes attacked hideouts of the militants ...

PESHAWAR Rejecting election results of NA-44 Bajuar Agency, a group of losing contenders, have alleged rigging in polls and demanded the Election Commission to de-notify election results and re-hold election in Bajaur.Speaking at a press conference here at press club on Monday, the Jamaat-e-Islami ...

islamabad - The Raghagan Small Dam in Bajuar Agency, would be constructed for irrigation land and water storage capacity.Talking to APP, General Manager, (Technical), Fata Development Authority told taht the project would be completed by December 2014. To a question, he said the Raghagan Small Dam ...

NEW DELHI A packed New Delhi courtroom sat in rapt silence this week as an irate Supreme Court judge denounced the elite Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a “caged parrot” and “its master’s voice”.Justice RM Lodha loudly berated the attorney-general, the ...

Security forces killed at least eight militants during an operation in Upper Orakzai on Saturday.As per details, the operation was carried out in Shin Qamar and Sanga areas.During the aerial attacks Pakistani military aircraft also destroyed three militant hideouts.Orakzai is one of Pakistan's ...

SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday raided the country’s spy agency as part of a probe into allegations that it meddled in the presidential election in December, a news report said.A team of about 25 prosecutors and investigators from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ ...

PESHAWAR  - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Khyber Agency Hassan Shinwari has demanded immediate reshuffling of high officials of the agency to ensure free, fair and transparent elections in the agency.Addressing a press conference here at press club on Monday, Shinwari said that despite the clear ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Another government primary school for boys was razed to the ground in a bomb blast in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Saturday, official and local sources said. Luckily no casualty was reported as no one present at the school at the time of the blast, sources said, adding the ...

KALAYA - Security forces on Wednesday killed at least eight suspected militants in exchange of firing in Orakzai Agency.According to security forces, some unidentified armed militants attacked security forces check post in Dabori area of Orakzai Agency and injured two personnel. In retaliatory fire ...

LAHORE – Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sehti has redirected Wasa to adopt every possible measure for uninterrupted water supply to the citizens. He said that water should be supplied through tankers where it was unavailable besides ensuring operation of all tube-wells in the City.The ...

PEHSAWAR - A primary school for boys and girls has been constructed with the financial assistance of the Japanese government in a village Kadam, Khyber Agency. The honorary Consul General of Japan in Peshawar Nawabzada Fazal Karim Afridi formally inaugurated the school in a ceremony held at the ...

ROME (AFP) - The UN food agency on Tuesday warned the world risked a surge in bird flu outbreaks unless countries strengthen their monitoring against dangerous animal diseases despite economic hardship. “The continuing international economic downturn means less money is available for ...

 At least 20 suspected militants were killed early on Wednesday when army jets pounded militant hideouts in the northwestern tribal regions of Orakzai and Khyber.According to Media reports, the jet planes pounded militant hideouts in Khyber Agency at the area of Dwatoie, three hideouts of the ...

LAHORE - A man, owner of an advertising agency, was shot and injured by unidentified persons. The incident took place in the Johar Town police area on Tuesday. Investigators said Naveed Ahmed, a resident of BOR Society, was on his way home when two persons riding a motorbike intercepted him and ...

WASHINGTON  - The main US foreign aid agency is preparing to switch from private security contractors in Afghanistan to Afghan government-provided security this month under a new policy mandated by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, raising concern in Washington that this could put US civilians at ...

ISLAMABAD - The Overseas Investment Corporation, an independent United States agency, has signed an agreement with Port Gas Pakistan Limited liquefied natural gas project at Bin Qasim to provide $98.6 million. While addressing the signing ceremony here in Islamabad the Federal Minister for Finance ...

The worlds hairiest man has discovered his animal magnetism after being signed up to promote a dating agency. Yu Zhenhuan - declared the hairiest man on the plant by Guinness records bosses - was besieged by young nurses at the launch party for the agency in Hunan, southern China. Since deciding to ...

LAHORE The federal government is seriously considering shutting down countrys first private detective company - Fact Finders- terming its functioning as illegal and unconstitutional, sources disclosed to TheNation here Friday. A leading intelligence agency has forwarded its report to the Interior ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - The UN atomic watchdog carried out an agreed inspection of a Syrian plant on Friday as part of a long-stalled probe into suspected covert nuclear activity. The inspection is being conducted as planned, an official of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said, ...

KARACHI - Baloch Student Organisation (BSO) on Saturday claimed that its another leader Abdul Qayyum has been picked up by the state security agency illegally from Balochistans port city Gwadar a few days ago. Issuing a statement, the BSO spokesman said that BSO-Azad Central Committee Member Abdul ...

LAHORE (APP) - Provincial Minister for Finance Planning and Development Tanvir Ashraf Kaira said the international community had helped Pakistan and provided aid to flood affectees but more aid was needed. He expressed these views while talking to a delegation of Turkish International Cooperation ...

KARACHI - The Supreme Court on Friday issued directives to Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to submit an affidavit regarding 'detention of missing Sindh nationalist leader Akash Mallah. A two-member SC bench comprising Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Khelji Arif Hussain issued the order ...

GENEVA (AFP) - A global drive against child labour has slackened in recent years, with some 215 million children and a growing number of boys locked in the practice, the UN labour agency warned Saturday. The number represented a decline of just three percent from 222 million child workers in 2004 ...

Landikotal Like other parts of the country, a three-day anti-polio drive launched in Khyber Agency. In this connection, a ceremony was held here in Jamrud hospital, which was attended besides health officials, by a large number of Maliks and tribal elites. Khalilur Rehman, Assistance Education ...

BAJAUR AGENCY - Amidst shelling of gunship helicopters and bombings by jet planes, the military operation has been launched against militants in Tehsil Mamund and at least twelve militants were killed and ten others injured in the security forces jet bombardments. According to our correspondent, ...

KABUL (AFP) - Some 840,000 dollars' worth of food destined for needy Afghans has been lost so far this year in attacks, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday. From January to mid-November there were 25 armed attacks against WFP convoys inside Afghanistan, resulting in the loss of about ...

Federal Law Minister Farooq H. Naek said Tuesday that decision regarding restoration of deposed judges would be taken today (Tuesday). Talking to media, he said leaders of the ruling coalition would decide on president's accountability. About impeachment, he said, "Pervez Musharraf has resigned as ...

KARACHI - Religious scholar Allama Ali Hussaini has urged the government to take solid steps to maintain peace in the Kurram Agency and to start rehabilitation programme in the affected areas. Hussaini is the son of slain Shia religious scholar and Tehreek-e-Jafferia founder leader Shaheed ...

AURAKZAI AGENCY - Local Taliban shot dead at least six persons as punishment for their alleged involvement in criminal activities in Aurakzai Agency. The bullet-riddled bodies of ill-fate six persons were found near bazaar of Ghaljo town, headquarters of Upper Aurakzai Agency in early hours of ...

TOKYO (AFP) - The World Bank, the World Food Organisation and other aid groups will hold an emergency meeting next week to discuss ways to deal with the global food crisis, a World Bank official said Friday. Senior officials including World Bank president Robert Zoellick will meet Thursday on ...