Tag: tribal areas

SBP extends validity of refinance schemes by one year

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 Zardari approves local government for PATA

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

Medical college, IT university to be set up in FATA

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% children underweight in FATA

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...

Nearly 200,000 girls attending schools in FATA

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 body for comprehensive strategy on law and order in FATA

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

Tirah falls

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...

US to intensify drone strikes in Pakistan

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

8 militants killed in Khyber Agency

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...

Elders demand immediate implementation of FATA reforms

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

17 militants killed, 18 injure in encounter

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

US missiles kill 21 in NWA

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, 18 militants killed in lower Kurram

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 there be political reforms in FATA without media reforms?

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

Tribal areas inspire the ‘Wandering Falcon’

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

Policeman, five rebels killed: officials

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