Tag: Swa

Army starts handing over South Waziristan checkposts to FC

PESHAWAR: The army has begun transferring its checkposts in South Waziristan Agency to the Frontier Corps (FC), FC Inspector General (IG) Major General Abid Lateef...

Four labourers shot dead in SWA

WANA: Unidentified armed men gunned down four labourers in South Waziristan Agency in the early hours of Saturday morning and escaped the scene.  The political administration said...

IGFC calls sacrifices of SWA tribesmen highly commendable

WANA: Inspector General of Frontier Corps (IGFC) Major General Abid Latif has said that sacrifices of tribal people of South Waziristan Agency (SWA) and their...

Peace committee member killed in SWA

  WANA: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a member of a peace committee and fled the scene here on Wednesday. Levies sources said the armed men sprayed Ali...

Gunmen kidnap eight govt officials from SWA

Unidentified gunmen on Thursday kidnapped eight FATA Development Authority (FDA) employees in South Waziristan when they were heading to inspect an under construction dam...

Standoff between political administration of SWA, junior clerks worsens

The standoff between political administration of South Waziristan Agency (SWA) and junior clerks took an ugly turn as the Mehsud tribe decided to hold...

US drone strike kills 7 militants

At least seven suspected militants were killed and two others injured in a US drone strike on Friday in South Waziristan Agency. According to security...

Army destroys militants’ shops in SWA in retaliatory action

Helicopter gunships and bulldozers destroyed dozens of shops in a restive tribal area of South Waziristan on Tuesday after a bomb attack on a...

8,000 TDP families to be sent back to SWA

The registration has begun for the return of Temporarily Displaced Persons (TDPs) to South Waziristan after the success of operation against militants. According to South...

IED blast in SWA injures 12 troops

At least 12 security personnel were injured on Saturday when a security forces convoy came under an IED attack in the Sarwakai area of...

US drone kills five in South Waziristan on Eid eve

The drone fired two missiles on a compound in Kand Ghar area of Shawal district, which stretches across both North and South Waziristan tribal regions

First polio case detected in SWA

PESHAWAR First poliovirus case was surfaced in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) on Saturday. The National Institute of Health (NIH) said that a six-month-old girl, hailing from...

Two years since Children in Waziristan, FATA got polio vaccines

Anti polio campaign in North and South Waziristan Agencies and Federal Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) could not be carried out during last two years...

Five soldiers killed in SWA

At least five security personnel were killed and several others injured in a landmine bombing on Wednesday. According to military sources, unknown miscreants had planted...

2 killed, 4 injured as Afghan army fires mortar shells inside...

Afghan forces on Tuesday fired six mortar shells that landed deep inside Pakistan’s South Waziristan Agency, killing two men and injuring another four, security...

Six killed in drone strike in SWA

As many as six suspect militants were killed and four others injured after a US drone fired missiles on two compounds in South Waziristan...

2 security officials killed in attack on checkpost in SWA

At least two security forces’ personnel were killed and another two were injured when militants attacked a checkpost in Sararogha area of South Waziristan...