SWATThe transformer approved for Swat grid station has been shifted to DI Khan over political interference by JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, The Nation learnt here. According to sources, 20 26 MVA-FT transformer worth Rs250 million was approved for district Swat after the floods severely ...

SwatPolitical interference on the part of JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman was observed in the Wapda internal affairs when an accredited transformer of Swat Grid Station was transferred to D.I Khan. According to sources in Wapda, a transformer worth Rs250 million was approved by Wapda for Swat ...

  SWAT PakistanTeheek-e-Insaf’s swept in Swat valley as it won 2 National Assembly and attained five provincial assembly seats. According to un-official results, there were 321 total polling stations in NA-29 constituency Swat where young PTI candidate Murad Saeed grabbed the NA-29 ...

SWATA neck and neck contest is expected between PML-N's heavyweight Syed Mohammad Ali Shah Bacha Lala and PTI's Murad Saeed in NA-29 (SWAT).All major political parties have started feverish election campaign for NA seat NA-29, (SWAT-1).The PML-N and PTI are being considered main competitors while ...

SWAT  - Election activities were in full swing at the National Assembly constituency NA-30, Swat Valley. Total of 25 candidates of different political parties were trying their luck in the May 11 general elections. Total of 981,924 registered voters would cast votes for two NA and seven PK ...

SWAT - The two-day colorful festival 'Swat Youth Gala' organised by the Pakistan Army concluded here on Tuesday.On the 1st day of festival, youth of the area participated in different indoor and outdoor activities. Events of English quiz and Urdu speech for both boys and girls were organised at the ...

SWAT - The girls of different schools of the Swat valley on Tuesday vowed that they would continue Malala Yousafzai’s mission. They said they would struggle hard for girls education in the country. Talking to this scribe, they said they were inspired from the bravery of Malala and would ...

Swat- National ‘Qiraat’ competition was held at the Wadudia Hall Mingora here on Monday. The programme was organised by the Pakistan Army in which more than 15 participants from different parts of the country participated. A team of judges comprising Mulana Dr Ahmed Mian Tahnawal and ...

SWAT - The Election Commissioner Swat has planned to set up 617 polling stations in district Swat for two national assembly seats - NA-29, NA 30 and seven provincial seats PK-80 to PK86 in Swat. In this connection, a proposal has been sent to different ROs (Returning Officers) in which 617 polling ...

A local leader of Awami National Party, Mukarram Shah was killed in a roadside bomb blast on Sunday in Swat district.DIG police Abdullah said the incident took place in Banjot village at Tehsil Charbagh of the Swat district where miscreants targeted vehicle of the ANP leader Mukarram Shah with a ...

SWAT - Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Friday visited Swat and formally inaugurated Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan Bridge over the Swat River along with UAE Ambassador Essa Abdullah al-Basha al-Noaim, a developmental project for the area. The Inauguration ceremony was ...

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Bajaur and Swat, Friday in connection with inauguration of projects completed under UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme (UPAP).According to ISPR, COAS inaugurated Technical College at Khar, Bajaur. The college will provide diploma level ...

PESHAWAR  - Angry girls protested Wednesday against the renaming of their school after shot teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, saying the move would make them a target for militants. Around 150 students boycotted classes at what is now the Government Malala College for Girls in Saidu Sharif, ...

SWAT – The citizens of Swat have got deprived of Internet facility, as the Nawakaly Exchange, which has more than 3,500 DSL lines, has got some technical fault, causing disturbance in the said lines. According to details, about 3,000 DSL lines are not working from last one day in Nawakaly ...

LAHORE – The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) postponed the press conference of the First Swat Peace Twenty20 Cricket Tournament here at Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday due to non-availability of the board’s Director General Javed Miandad and Director Game Development Intikhab Alam. The PCB ...

SWAT - The University of Swat held its first two-day national conference on ‘Poverty Alleviation Through Sustainable Management of Biodiversity’ in Bara Gali Summer Camp of the University of Peshawar on Saturday and Sunday.The theme of the conference was focused on discussing how ...

MINGORA (Swat) - Pakistan Army will organise Swat Twenty20 Peace Cricket Tournament in October 2012 wherein the local and national players will vie for the top honour at different local grounds. The aim of holding the tournament is to make an earnest endeavour to project peaceful image of Swat and ...

SWAT – A prominent member of Swat Qaumi Jirga got critically injured when some unidentified persons opened fire on him after Isha prayer near Mingora General Bus Stand on Saturday.According to details, Al-Haj Zahid Khan, who was an active member of the Swat Qaumi Jirga and also president of ...

MINGORA  - A police constable from Swat has created a new standard of honesty. The police constable found Rs 5.5 million and returned it.Ayaz Mian was on his way home after performing his duty as part of the security escort of a civil judge when he found the bag filled with money lying on the ...

Minerals are a gift by nature through which a country can boost its economy. Luckily, the valley of Swat, Shangla and Buner are rich in minerals. The extraction of these metamorphic rocks is carried out through primitive techniques in which uncontrolled blasting is a common mode. In almost all ...

Swat - Security forces on Sunday claimed to have arrested commander of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Swat along with his accomplice. Sources said commander Gul Rahim and his accomplice were arrested from a hotel in Taxila during a brief action conducted on a tip-off. Authorities said Gul Rahim ...

PESHAWAR – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Senior Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour said on Monday that the present government has allotted plots to only seven legislatures of the provincial assembly from Swat.Only seven provincial lawmakers from Swat have been allotted plots at Hayatabat, a ...

ISLAMABAD - The US government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Entrepreneurs Project, has helped 13,000 conflict and flood-affected plant collectors and beekeepers in Upper Dir and Swat restart their businesses by providing essential tools and training. In a ...

MEHREEN FAROOQ AND WALEED ZIAD IN Charbagh, a quiet town in Pakistans fabled Swat Valley, storefronts perforated by bullet holes are a haunting reminder of how the Taliban insurgency brought militants dangerously close to Islamabad in 2009. Once romanticised as the Switzerland of South Asia, Swat ...

ARIANA (AFP) - A year after floods swept away homes and livelihoods, the survivors of a Taliban uprising are courting fresh disaster in the picturesque Swat valley by refusing to leave for higher ground. It was about 7pm on July 29 when Sayed Zamin Khan, 55, lent over his terrace, transfixed as the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The USAID has disbursed working capital and rehabilitation cash assistance of $1.158 million under its Malakand Grants Programme among 239 hotels and 22 fish farms till June 30 this year. A total amount of $5.25 million has been earmarked for these two sectors, of which $1.4 ...

Awami National Party (ANP)s senator Haji Adeel has said that law and order situation in Swat was better than Karachi. Talking to media in Peshawar on Sunday he said he did not felt fear in Swat but was scared of visiting Karachi. He said that the ANP wanted peace in Karachi and all the decisions ...

Two US helicopters landed in Kala Dhaka area of Swat before the operation in Abbottabad, in which Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2, reported a private TV channel on Thursday. The ground distance from Kala Dhaka to Abbottabad is 150 kilometres, having mountainous terrain. An witness said that the ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani during his visit to Swat on Tuesday attended the groundbreaking ceremony of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Bridge near Barikot The UAE-funded bridge is being constructed by Frontier Works Organisation under the Quick Impact ...

Security forces killed two militants in operation here in the area of Shakardra, Swat on Wednesday. According to security forces sources, both terrorists Abdul Raheem and Imran Khan were killed by firing of Security forces while attempting to escape from forces custody.