Tag: Dir

Dir women challenge ‘male-only’ by-poll

A petition was filed in Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Saturday seeking annulment of Dir by-election results.

Nisar admits peace process ‘deeply hurt’ due to Dir attack

  Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday admitted the fact that the terrorist attack in Dir claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had ‘deeply...

KP govt declares dengue emergency in five districts

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government on Wednesday declared emergency in the hospitals of five districts, including Dir, Malakand, Swabi, Buner and Shangla as one...

Floody fiasco

Floodwater inundates 50 villages in DG Khan, 300 villages in Jaffarabad More than 50 villages in Dera Ghazi Khan (DG Khan) were submerged with floodwater...

Earthquake shakes Northern areas

An earthquake registering 4.1 on the richter scale struck Chitral, Swat, Dir, and its adjoining areas on Saturday morning. Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said that...

Bride among five killed at a wedding in Lower Dir

Five people, including the bride, were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a wedding ceremony in Lower Dir’s Jandola Samar Bagh area in...

15 dead in Lower Dir IED blast

At least 15 people were killed and 11 others injured when unidentified militants targeted a passenger van with a high-intensity improvised explosives devise (IED)...

Bomb blast kills 14 in Lower Dir: police

A remote-controlled bomb targeting a passenger van killed at least 14 people and wounded 10 others in Lower Dir on Sunday, police said, blaming...

Suicide bomber blows himself up in Dir

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a police station in northwest after officers opened fire on him on Wednesday, police said, adding that...

Security forces repulse Afghan militants’ attack in Dir, kill five

Security forces on Friday repulsed an attack on a checkpost in Lower Dir by Afghan militants, killing five of the attackers in a gun...

6 militants killed by security forces in Dir

At least six militants were killed when their cross border attack on security forces Karkay check post was repulsed on Friday. Official sources said that...

Troops thwart another cross-border attack in Upper Dir

Taliban militants on Wednesday released a video showing severed heads of 17 Pakistani soldiers abducted last Friday in a cross-border attack in Upper Dir,...

Pakistani forces kill 8 militants in Upper Dir

The Pakistan forces killed eight militants during a crackdown in Mamuzai area of Upper Dir on Tuesday. The forces shelled the hideouts of militants in...

Five Afghan militants, soldier killed in Dir skirmish

Security forces clashed with militants crossing over from Afghanistan in Upper Dir, killing five intruders and losing one soldier in the skirmish on Friday....

25 suspects arrested, bomb defused in Lower Dir

Police on Friday claimed to have foiled a major bid of terror by defusing explosive device and arrested at least 25 suspected people during...

11 killed in Upper Dir road accident

At least 11 persons, including two women and a child, were killed and nine others sustained injuries when a passenger van fell into a...

Bomb kills militiaman, three others in Lower Dir

A roadside bomb targeted an anti-Taliban militia member in Lower Dir on Tuesday, ripping through his vehicle and killing four people, police said. The blast...