Tag: Fata

No terror sanctuaries exist in Pakistan: ISPR DG

--Ghafoor calls for need to peacefully resolve all disputes with India, including Kashmir issue   ISLAMABAD: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Major General Asif Ghafoor...

4th Inter-Provincial Games open in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: The 4th edition of the Inter-Provincial Games under the aegis of Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) and with the collaboration of KP Sports Directorate General...

Manzoor Pashteen recounts sufferings of IDPs

PTM leader says 320 missing persons have returned after Islamabad sit-in LAHORE: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen, who has been leading a peaceful...

Health workers in FATA to be probed over corruption in anti-polio...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has approved inquiries against officers of FATA Secretariat, Malakand finance department and Peshawar Cantonment for their...

PTI to support Senate chairman candidate from Balochistan: Sarwar

Says party will not vote for PPP, PML-N candidate PTI announces minority wing office-bearers for central Punjab   LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and Senator Chaudhry Muhammad...

ECP issues notifications of candidates returned to Senate

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan has issued official notifications of the candidates returned to the Senate following elections of the upper house on 3rd of...

Pashteen seeks humanisation of Pashtuns

  PSM leader says there are at least 32, 000 extra-judicially missing Pushtuns Says Pushtun struggle within Constitutional boundaries Says no hospital in FATA...

Pashtun leader Pashteen takes Lahore by storm

LAHORE: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PSM) Leader Manzoor Pashteen on Tuesday lamented the continued extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and racial profiling of the Pashtuns by state...

7 small dams, 13 irrigation schemes completed in FATA since 2004

ISLAMABAD: Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) Development Authority has completed seven small dams and 13 small irrigation schemes since 2004 to till date. The official...

PML-N, PPP speed up contacts with independents for Senate chairmanship

 PKMAP announces to support PML-N, FATA members to PPP  PTI backs Senate chairman from Balochistan ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People's Party...

‘Toy bomb’ explosion leads to girl’s hands getting amputated

PESHAWAR: Doctors had to amputate a girl’s hands after she was critically injured in an explosion by a bomb that children brought home after...

PPP seeks extension of jurisdiction of superior courts to tribal areas

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that delay in extending the jurisdiction of the superior judiciary to the tribal...

76 pc of FATA development fund still not utilised: report

ISLAMABAD: The fate of development fund of Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) hangs in the balance as political parties and authorities are mainly focusing on...

PPP ‘steals’ PML-N’s thunder

PPP pulls surprise victories in KP, Balochistan as MQM-P’s Sattar alleges horse-trading in Sindh PML-N secures 15 seats, PPP follows closely with 12 ...

AIOU allocates fund worth Rs170m for needy students

ISLAMABAD: In a bid to provide financial support, Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) allocated fund for underprivileged students worth Rs 170 million in the annual...

PM summons Economic Coordination Committee meeting on Monday

LAHORE: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has summoned an important meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Monday, as reported by Geo News. Provincial and...

Rewaj Act not acceptable, says Asfandyar Wali

  PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Tuesday said that FATA Rewaj Act is against the human rights and is not acceptable to...