LAHORE  - US Ambassador, Richard Olson met with PTI Chairman, Imran Khan at his residence on Friday and discussed with him PTI’s priorities for Khyber Pakhtunkhawa government. US top diplomat in Pakistan also congratulated PTI Chairman for his party’s success in the 2013 ...

After an extremely bad performance by the Awami National Party (ANP) in KPK, the Pashtuns have once again shown their loyalty to Pakistan and their province by electing the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to govern the province for the next five years. This ensures better conditions for ...

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister-designate Pervez Khan Khattak said on Thursday that provincial assembly meeting had been convened on May 29, 2013. "Issues will be resolved within couple of days. PTI will meet its 100 per cent agenda during its rule in the province," he said this ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa former law minister Barrister Arshad Abdullah was arrested on Wednesday from a session court in Charsadda after his pre-arrest bail application in a case for attacking a police station was cancelled.Police have registered a case against Abdullah for attacking Utmanzia ...

Asad Qaisar, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Provincial President, said on Tuesday that the PTI government would build seven model cities at divisional level in the province.Talking to TheNation, he said that model cities would be built in seven divisions, including Peshawar, Bannu, Kohat, Dera ...

PESHAWAR -   Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Engineer Shaukatullah has said that after a decade-long unrest, peace is restored in KPK and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).  “Life has become normal to a great extent and the businessmen should come forward to invest for ...

SWATPML-N Senior Vice President Engineer Amir Muqam is likely to be appointed as the next Governor of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa or special adviser to prime minister, sources disclosed. In this connection, the PML N leadership has given some options to Amir Muqam and the decision is up to him. The news ...

SWAT - PML-N Senior Vice President Engineer Amir Muqam is likely to be appointed as the next Governor of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa or special adviser to prime minister, sources disclosed. In this connection, the PML N leadership has given some options to Amir Muqam and the decision is up to him. The news ...

PESHAWAR - The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) have announced names for three ministries in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial government.Sirajul Haq, Inayatullah Khan and Habibur Rehman have been put forward for the ministries of education, zakat and finance. Speaking to the media after a meeting, provincial ...

SWAT - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Engineer Amir Muqam said on Saturday that his party could make government in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but PML-N would respect the mandate of Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the province.He said this while addressing party workers here at the ...

Imran Khan's PTI will now rule the roost in KPK. This is Imran Khan's first opportunity to form a government, so it is important that he puts his best foot forward as this will show his mettle as well as pave the way for his victory next time around. The first task for the PTI is the ...

PESHAWAR The PTI-led government will ensure peace, justice, education and health facilities to the people of the province, said Pervez Khattak, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister-designate.Addressing a joint press conference with JI Vice Ameer Sirajul Haq and QWP Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan ...

KHYBER AGENCY - A driver was killed when unidentified militants opened fire at a NATO supply tanker in Gariza area of Jamrud tehsil, sub-division of Khyber tribal region, on Thursday, official sources said.  According to an administration official, the trailer returned from Afghanistan and was ...

ISLAMABAD - JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman’s another effort to sabotage the formation of a PTI government in Kyhber Pakhtunkhwa was frustrated Thursday, thanks to the demonstration of political maturity by the PML-N. Fazl met Shahbaz Sharif and asked him to sponsor his efforts to arrange a ...

Islamabad- On the directives of Islamabad High Court (IHC), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities Wednesday produced before the court a missing person Ameer Ahmed allegedly abducted by the intelligence agencies.The provincial authorities presented Ameer Ahmed, a resident of Rahim Yar Khan, before Justice ...

PESHAWAR - The PTI, JI and QWP have agreed on a power sharing formula to form a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The JUI-F of Fazlur Rehman, the second majority party in the province which was too eager to engineer its own coalition, will now have to sit on the opposition benches along ...

peshawar - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) central leader and former chief minister Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan has said that they respect Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf mandate to form government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.“PML-N will not become part of any game that could politically destabilize the ...

PESHAWAR - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) agreed to form a coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, though power sharing formula was yet to be finalised.PTI's Pervez Khattak and Azam Khan Swati while JI's Prof Ibrahim Khan, Shabbir Ahmad Khan and Inayatullah Khan ...

MULTANFormer foreign minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that his party will form government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as many parties are in contact with the PTI for this purpose.Addressing a news conference here on Monday, he added that ...

MULTAN - Our Staff Reporter -  PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that his party will form govt in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as many parties are in contact with the PTI for this purpose.Addressing a news conference here on Monday, he added that other political parties like Jamaat-e-Islami and ...

Peshawar/Islamabad  - With 34 seats in hand, the PTI is all set to form the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for which the modalities with political parties are almost final and their leaders are just giving final touches to the power-sharing mechanism.Sources told TheNation that PTI would be ...

          PESHAWAR Once again the womenfolk were deprived of their right to vote on Saturday in general election as in some parts of the KPK and FATA, no woman voter turned out to cast her vote. InLower Dir, a jirga decided a day earlier not to allow women to vote inLower ...

PESHAWAR - Amid tight security arrangements, around 13.92 million registered voters in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata will exercise their right to vote for 47 National Assembly (NA) and 99 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seats in the general election for which polling will be held today (Saturday).In ...

LOWER DIR/MIANWALI  - Elders in Lower Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Mianwali district of Punjab have banned women voting in their respective areas. According to BBC Urdu, the elders of KP-97 Lower Dir have decided that no woman would cast vote on May 11. Similarly, the elders of ...

PESHAWAR - A five-member delegation of European Union Election Observer Mission (EUEOM) on Thursday expressed its satisfaction over the preparation and arrangements made so far by the Election Commission and relevant departments of the provincial government for holding general elections in a free, ...

Peshawar/Kohat/Swabi  -  Ten people were killed and over 45 others injured in three bomb blasts targeting election offices of different candidates and an ANP public meeting in Kohat, Peshawar and Swabi on Sunday.A joint election office of independent candidate Syed Noor Akbar and ANP's ...

PESHAWAR  - Speakers at a seminar have demanded the caretaker government and Election Commission of Pakistan to take steps to ensure holding of free, fair, and transparent elections in a peaceful atmosphere.The seminar titled "Peaceful, transparent Election and Steps for Resolution of Problems ...

Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Engineer Shaukatullah and Chief Minister Justice (Retired) Tariq Parvez called on President Asif Ali Zardari at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Friday.Overall situation in the province and FATA was discussed during the meeting, a statement from the President House said.The Governor ...

PESHAWAR - President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, on Saturday appointed Shaukatullah Khan as the new governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, replacing Syed Masood Kausar. The new governor will take oath from Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Justice Dost ...

Two persons were injured in an explosion in Jehangira area at Swabi road here in Nowshera on Monday.According to police sources, the bomb was planted on a stationary motorbike in the area for targeting KPK Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti’s convoy. The bomb went off soon after the convoy ...