KARACHI - Thousands of people of Hazara community living in Karachi took out a protest rally from Dawood Chowrangi to Press Club on Sunday to denounce the renaming of NWFP as Khyber-Pukhtoonkhwa. Hazara Qaumi Mahaz (HQM) organised the rally, during which protestors were carrying the flags of HQM ...

PML-Q on Sunday reiterated its call to vote against renaming the NWFP as Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa in the Senate, claiming it was against the wishes of the people of Hazara, a private TV reported. Speaking to the media in Abbotabad, PML-Q president, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain accused PML-N chief Nawaz ...

PESHAWAR Federal Minister for Railways Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour has said that the traders community had played a commendable role in maintaining law and order in Peshawar city by fully cooperating with police. The Government will utilise all its resources to solve the problems of the traders ...

MOST areas of the NWFP including Peshawar are still facing protracted spells of announced and unannounced loadshedding, a private TV channel reported on Sunday. Peshawar is facing ten to 12 hours of loadshedding in urban areas and 16 to 18 hours in rural areas. Unannounced loadshedding has caused a ...

Parliaments Constitutional Reforms Committee (CRC) on Wednesday approved Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa with consensus as the new name for NWFP, report said. CRC met here with its chairman Senator Raza Rabbani in chair to end the deadlock between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Awami National Party (ANP) on ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Awami National Party and Pakistan Muslim League (N) have expressed agreement over the name of Afghania for the province. PML-N leader Pir Sabir Shah talking to a private News channel said that ANP had proposed three names for the province ie Pakhtoonkhwa, Pakhtoonistan and ...

A meeting of PML-N central organizing committee and NWFP organizing committee over renaming of NWFP remained inconclusive after PML-N NWFP insisted on Afghania. The meeting held at Punjab House here. The chief of PML-N Mian Nawaz Sharif presided the meeting. According to sources, Nawaz while ...

LAHORE - Pukhtoonkhawa-Abaseen is likely to be approved as the new name of the NWFP, while the chiefs of PML-N and ANP are likely to meet on Thursday (today) in Islamabad to give a green signal to the new identity of the Frontier province. ANP insiders privy to the developments about renaming the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - NWFP Cabinet on Tuesday discussed three point agenda of reforms in Madaris, budget strategy paper and comprehensive development strategy (CDS). The cabinet in its 19th meeting under chairmanship of Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti held at Frontier House Islamabad unanimously ...

ISLAMABAD - The ongoing war against terrorists has not only claimed thousands of innocent lives but have also rendered thousands of people jobless, especially in NWFP where three-fourths of industrial units have succumbed to adverse circumstances, TheNation reliably learnt on Monday. According to ...

LOWER DIR (Agencies) - Senior NWFP Minister Bashir Bilour has confirmed the presence of Blackwater in the province and has said that the company is here to provide security to US firms and other non-government organisations, reported a private TV channel. However, later he retracted from his stance ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - The government of NWFP in collaboration with federal government is going to announce a package of Rs.18 billion for the revival and revitalization of trade and industry in the militancy affected province. The package would be formally unveiled by the Finance Minister, Shaukat ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - Chairman, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) NWFP, Afan Aziz has dispelled the impression of the non-availability of cotton-yarn in the local market, saying that sufficient stock of the commodity was available with the spinning industry of the country. Addressing a ...

LAHORE - The Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Commerce Ilyas Bilour has said that the United States has put Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs) in NWFP on the back burner and it would have a very negative impact on overall economic scenario in the country. Senator Ilyas Bilour along with ...

PESHAWAR (APP) The NWFP Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain on Tuesday presented a resolution in a representative jirga of business community of Peshawar held at Chief Minister House that was unanimously endorsed. In the light of the resolution and recommendations of industrialists and ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Strong tremors were felt in many areas of Punjab, NWFP and the federal capital on Thursday night at around 11.49 pm and the intensity of the earthquake was reported 6.1 at Rector scale. There is no report of damage of property or life from anywhere so far. The earthquake jolted ...

ISLAMABAD - Growing terror threats in the wake of the ongoing Waziristan Operation has forced the NWFP provincial government to shift the venue for the National Finance Commissions regional meeting scheduled for October 29-30 at Peshawar to a secure place. Sources in the provincial government ...

Muslim League (N) Leader Nawaz Sharif has called off a party meeting to consult on the Kerry-Lugar Bill. According to PML-N sources, Nawaz Sharif has decided to comment over the Kerry-Lugar legislation after return of Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and completion of debate over the bill in ...

PESHAWAR (APP) - Wajia Sundas clinched the title of the Individual time trials race title while Frontier College for Women grabbed the team time trials race trophy in the 4th NWFP Women Cycling Championship held here at Board ground on Saturday. Chief Manager State Bank Taleem Kazi was the chief ...

Eid-ul-Fitr being celebrated in several districts of NWFP today (Sunday) after announcement of Shawwal moon-sighting by a private Ruet-e-Hilal committee in Peshawar. According to reports Eid being celebrated in 11 of the 23 districts of the province. People observing fast in other 12 districts. ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance, Shaukat Tarin on Thursday directed the FBR to establish Facilitation Cells in various parts of the NWFP province for speedy solution of tax problems faced by the business community there. An eight-member delegation of the Sarhad Chamber ...

The NWFP government on Wednesday presented over Rs214 billion tax-free budget in the provincial assembly for the year 2009-10 showing over Rs three and half billion deficit, report said. Senior Provincial Minister Rahimdad Khan presented Rs214.2 billion budget before the house with Rs3.6 billion ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Army and civilian leadership of NWFP Friday discussed the post-conflict management and settlement roadmap and decided to translate the given challenges with matching response into an opportunity. The meting was attended by Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvaz Kayani, who ...

Growing Islamist violence has crippled the economy in northwest Pakistan, made tens of thousands of people unemployed and exacerbated the poverty that breeds fundamentalism, business leaders say. North West Frontier Province (NWFP), which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan's capital Islamabad, is ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said there is complete unity in the people in the war for the survival of the country and joint efforts will be made to counter the threat of extremism. A handful of elements will not be allowed to impose their will at gunpoint. The maintenance of ...

NWFP government has expressed fear that near half a million people might migrate from Malakand division due to increasing activities of Taliban in Swat and ongoing military operation in Buner, report said. The provincial government has already released funds of Rs 140 million to the districts to ...

KARACHI - Pakistani textile manufacturers are least interested in setting up industrial units in the proposed Reconstruction Opportunities Zones in NWFP because of unattractive incentives being offered by the United States and critical law and order situation in terror-hit NWFP, an industrialist ...

PESHAWAWR (APP) - The ongoing wave of militancy and insurgency in North West Frontier Province has badly hit the industrial sector in the province as in less than one year time about 843 production units closed down. We had around 1437 operational industrial units in the province till the end of ...

NEW YORK: They take over Buner, then they roll into Mardan and thats the end of the game, an unnamed senior law enforcement official in North-West Frontier Province was quoted as saying in The New York Times on Thursday after the district fell to the Taliban. But the Times correspondent in Pakistan ...

PESHAWAR - Saadia Gul of Peshawar Sunday became victorious against Faiza Hameed of Abbottabad in the final match of the first NWFP Women Squash championship here at Hashim Khan Squash Complex to clinch the trophy. In the best of five sets final, Saadia Gul outclassed her opponent and played ...