Tag: tribal areas

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Thursday extended the expiry date of the refinance facility for modernisation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), refinance scheme...

President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of the prime minister, on Monday accorded his assent to the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2012 and...

The government is taking several steps for promoting quality education in underdeveloped areas including Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to ensure their development. As part...

Around 33.2 percent children were underweight and 16.3 percent were severely underweight in the age groups 0-59 months in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas...

Over 194,637 girl students are enrolled in around 2349 educational institutions of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). This was conveyed to the Senate Standing Committee...

Senate Standing Committee on States and Frontier Regions on Wednesday directed the officials concerned to formulate a comprehensive strategy to ensure peace in the...

Where are we going wrong? Clear, hold, build. That’s what the Americans and other coalition partners were going for, with varying measures of success, in...

The United States has decided to intensify drone strikes in the Tribal Areas to mount pressure on Pakistan to restore NATO supply line without...

At least eight militants were killed in Khyber Agency area in an explosion inside their hideout, sources said on Saturday. According to sources, the blast...

Tribal elders and political workers on Monday demanded immediate implementation of FATA reforms in the Tribal Areas and said delay of the reforms had...

Seventeen militants and died eighteen others injured in an encounter between the militants and Security forces in the different areas of Orakzai and Khyber...

Two US drone strikes struck militants in North Waziristan on Thursday, killing at least 21, officials said. The aircraft fired missiles hours apart on separate...

Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a Taliban attack on their check post in the country's northwestern tribal belt, according...

Can political reforms in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) succeed without media reforms in the region? This key question is at the heart...

A retired Pakistani civil servant nearing 80 may not sound like the most obvious debut author to take the international publishing world by storm,...

At least five militants and a tribal policeman were killed in a rebel ambush and a bomb attack at checkpoints in tribal...