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Awami National Party (ANP) President Asfandyar Wali Khan on Thursday said that his party respects the armed forces. He said that statement given by Senator...

Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan on Monday said his party were ready to hold talks with militants for the elimination of...

Bashir’s death a loss for entire nation Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali has termed the demise of Bashir Ahmed Bilour as a loss...

The Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan said on Saturday that ‘Pakistan and Kalabagh dam cannot co-exist’ and the people have to...

Accused Liaquat succumbed at Civil Hospital to injuries incurred in an alleged police encounter near Sea View area of the metropolis. According to police...

Accused Liaquat succumbed at Civil Hospital to injuries incurred in an alleged police encounter near Sea View area of the metropolis. According to police sources,...

Amidst fuelling political polarisation and judicial activism, the nationalist Awami National Party (ANP) is prone to internal rifts as its former provincial president Begum...

The Awami National Party (ANP) has announced tickets to its members for Senate elections on the 12 seats of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while denying candidature...

Awami National Party (ANP) President Asfandyar Wali Khan said on Friday that his party would continue supporting coalition government led by Pakistan People’s Party....

A delegation of Awami National Party (ANP), headed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information and Culture Mian Iftikhar Hussain, visited Peshawar-based Afghan Consulate General...

Law enforcement agencies arrested the main culprit behind reporter Wali Babar’s murder, but released him on political pressure that was exerted from Islamabad, Pakistan...

KARACHI - A colleague of journalist Wali Babar escorted the ring leader of the gang of "target killers" who later murdered him, to the Geo office in Karachi, and helped him take snaps of Babar with his cell phone camera, disclosed the arrested accused of the case to a joint investigation team (JIT). The ring leader, Faisal alias Mota and Zeeshan, then distributed the snaps among a team of 26 target killers

KARACHI - Orders to kill journalist Wali Babar were issued by some "influential people" living in South Africa but who have connections in Karachi, according to a report prepared by a joint investigation team (JIT) probing the case and the five suspects that have been arrested thus far.
Babar was murdered in broad daylight on January 13, 2011, with former provincial home minister Zulfiqar Mirza assuring the journalist community that his killers will be nabbed.
Five men

KARACHI - Karachi police have arrested five of the "17 to 18" men suspected to be involved in the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar, claimed Capital City Police Officer (CCPO)-Karachi Saud Mirza on Thursday while addressing a press conference in his office.
"The accused have confessed during interrogation that they were involved in the killing of Wali Khan Babar on January 13, 2011," Mirza claimed, adding that Babar was killed due to his daring reporting on target killers,

KARACHI - The rumours mill went into overdrive on Sunday after text messages were circulated that journalist Wali Khan Babar's suspected assassin, a man named Liaquat, had been killed. Police officials maintained, however, that law enforcers were carrying out raids in an attempt to nab Liaquat.
"These are just rumours; we are carrying out raids to arrest Liaquat, the main suspect of the case, and we are confident that we'll arrest him soon," a senior police official, speaking to

Quett/lahore - Wali Khan Babar, a Geo News reporter who was killed by unknown men in Karachi on Thursday night, was laid to rest in his native town, Zhob on Friday.
His body was first brought to Quetta from where journalists and Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awamy Party workers joined his funeral procession to Gadi Babar of Zhob district. People from various walks of life attended his funeral prayer.
Journalists raised black flags on all press club buildings of Balochistan, while

KARACHI - The Karachi Press Club (KPC) presented a sombre but defiant picture on Friday, as the targeted assassination of 28-year-old journalist Wali Khan Babar reverberated among his friends and colleagues.
The KPC may be split along ideological lines, but all differences were cast aside as journalists from both the print and electronic media recalled the insecurity and uncertainty braved by media personnel in the execution of their jobs.
It was all too familiar for many