Tag: Mardan

21,292 confirmed dengue cases reported in Punjab last year

A total of 21,292 confirmed cases of dengue, including 352 which proved fatal, were reported in Punjab last year, said an official in dengue...

Six family members gunned down over marriage feud in Mardan

Armed men gunned down six members of a family and injured three others over marriage feud here on Monday. According to details, Sajjad Khan, an...

Militants blow up girls school in Mardan

Unidentified militants blew up a government girls’ primary school with explosive materials in Mardan. According to security forces, militants planted two explosive devices in the...

2 hurt as bomb hits police van in Mardan

Two policemen, including a Station House Officer (SHO), were injured when a remote-controlled bomb hit their patrolling mobile here on Friday. According to sources,...

20 shops destroyed in Mardan blast

Around 20 shops were damaged in an explosion at a CD market in Takht Bhai area of Mardan on Wednesday. The sources said that unidentified...

Access denied

Women voters stopped That women voters were stopped from casting votes at a number of polling stations in Mardan NA-9 and Mianwali PS-44 constitutes a...

Women stopped from voting in Mardan

The National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) was outraged when female voters were not allowed to exercise their franchise in Mardan and...

Mardan road accident kills 5 of a family

Five persons from a family died in a collision between a car and pick up due to over speeding on Saturday. Police sources said...

9 killed in road accidents in KP, Punjab

At least nine people including women and children were killed in separate road misshapes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, officials said on Saturday. ...

Clash leaves sub-inspector dead in Mardan

A sub-inspector (SI) was killed and eight extremists were arrested during an operation launched by the police and the security forces in Mardan, police...

Hoti to join PTI on Dec 16

Former Federal Minister Nawabzada Khwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti will join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in a public meeting on December 16 in Mardan. Khwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti...

Policeman killed in Mardan school bomb attack

A bomb attack on a girls' school in the outskirts of Mardan on Tuesday killed a policeman, wounded eight others and destroyed a wall,...

Girls school blown up in Mardan

Unknown militants blew up a girls school with explosives here on Tuesday night. According to police, the militants planted an explosive device in a government-run...

Power-less people go on rampage in Kasur, Mardan

Violent protests were witnessed in Kasur and Mardan on Wednesday as there was no letup in unscheduled and prolonged power outages across the country....

4 militants, 2 cops killed in Mardan shootout

MARDAN - As many as four militants and two police officers were killed and 10 policemen and civilians injured in a shootout on Fatima Road at Shahdhand Tuesday morning. Reportedly, on a tip off about the presence of some militants at Shahdhand graveyard, a party, headed by Hoti SHO Mian Mazhar Shah Khan, reached the spot and blocked the road.
As the police party saw four suspects, they ordered them to stop for checking. Instead of stopping, all the four militants resorted to

Kayani visits CMH Mardan

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Friday visited Combined Military Hospital (CMH) and enquired about the health of wounded recruits of Mardan bomb blast.
He appreciated morale of the injured persons and gave special instructions to the doctors for their early recovery, an ISPR note stated. Later, Kayani inaugurated the new outdoor patients' department complex at Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology and appreciated the efforts for further improving

Timeline of terror in Mardan

PESHAWAR - Mardan, considered a sensitive and important military centre, has been under terrorist attacks for the last several years. The Punjab Regiment Centre (PRC), commonly used for training recruits, was the latest target of militants.
Another sub-training camp of PRC at Dargai Malakand had also been a target in 2006. On September 3, 2010, a suicide attack in Mardan killed at least one person. On June 5, 2009, a roadside bomb ripped through a security force convoy, killing