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Pro-negotiations: ‘Govt stalling talks to buy time for military operation’
Taliban and government negotiations can be productive if both parties display seriousness in their efforts.
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Strategising: PML-N decides to go solo in LG polls
To form committees at district level for awarding party tickets.
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Ambushed: Three blasts in city’s outskirts, no loss reported
Police claim cancelled polio drive could have been the intended target .
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Shot dead: Police constable gunned down
The official speculates the attack might be sectarian.
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ATC trial: Suspected bomb-maker sent on judicial remand
The court sent the suspect on a judicial remand and turned down the police’s request.
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Not a priority : K-P’s laws to protect women remain inadequate
Speakers highlight areas where govt’s efforts are slow, call for speeding up of legislative process .
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Iron women: Les Misérables of Peshawar
How a young girl becomes one of 5,000 female labourers at Hayatabad Industrial Estate, underpaid, with nowhere to go.
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Internal incoherence: PML-N gropes in the dark ahead of LG polls
Several parties in K-P have already formed alliances and worked out their terms.
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Going techie: Electronic monitoring for sensitive govt installations
IGP Durrani says property owners need to submit details of tenants with police.
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Annual abstinence: Special prayers for Peshawar mark the season of Lent
The 40 days of fasting leads up to celebrations on Easter Sunday .
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Short end of the stick: All-party moot repeats demand for ‘just’ resource distribution by centre
Sirajul Haq says K-P needs to be given its rightful dues.
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The game that never ends: PHC accepts petitions of runners-up from NA-9, NA-34
Both losing candidates’ applications were earlier rejected by election tribunals.
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Weapons procurement scam: PHC CJ excuses himself from Malik Naveed’s bail hearing
Bench reiterates order to officials to submit missing persons task force report on March 18.
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WAPDA-PESCO: Unions protest across K-P against privatisation plans
Threaten country-wide dissent, even self-immolation if decision is not reversed.
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Art of dyeing: To tie and dye, that is the question
Most of Lower Dir’s artisans have left profession as customer base shrinks.
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Extra-curricular activities: Three-day book fair begins at UoP
55% discount is offered on purchase of all books at three-day book fair at UoP.
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Internal differences: PTI in knots over who to give Zakat committee reins
Of K-P’s 26 districts, only Peshawar is yet to decide a chairperson for the Zakat committee.
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Making headway: Two sewage samples from ‘polio reservoir’ test negative
These were randomly collected from sewers of Larma, Shaheen Muslim Town areas.
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Peace process: TTP set to end hostilities?
The declaration would come directly from the FATA due to the absence of Maulana Samiul Haq.
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High-level huddle: Provinces to be woven into security fabric
Security issues to be discussed with all chief ministers.
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Midnight explosions: Rockets rain down on provincial capital
Police say two rockets landed inside Bacha Khan International Airport, however, there was no damage reported.
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Profits over nature: UoP teachers decry move to sell chunks of K-P’s sole botanical garden
Govt plans to sell 550 of the 677 kanals of Azakhel Botanical Garden to private varsities.
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Day 96: Undeterred by PHC’s ruling, tribesmen lead freight blockade
PTI leader claims they are not disturbing Afghan Transit Trade.
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5 rockets land in Peshawar
Two rockets landed inside Bacha Khan International Airport, no damage reported: police.
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Blast heard at Chief Minister House Peshawar
Nature of explosion undetermined, no casualties.
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Hand grenade defused near Iranian consulate in Peshawar
Sniffer dogs were also brought in to search for any other explosive devices that may have been planted in the area.
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Peshawar suicide bombing: FC thwarts attack on Iranian diplomat’s house
Three FC personnel killed, 10 wounded; Iranian consulate and consul general’s house remain safe.
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Suicide blast in Peshawar leaves 2 dead and 9 injured
The consulate is situated in a residential area and has schools in its vicinity as well.
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Peshawar cinema attack: 15-year-old suspect sent on judicial remand
Hasan was reportedly given Rs8,000 for committing the act.
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Misplaced priorities: Gor Gathri turns into a parking lot again
The department has asked MCP to shift its vehicles saying it disturbs tourist activities.
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Back from the dead: K-P without a plan as swine flu rears its head
NIH confirmed two cases in the province after a gap of three years.
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Uptick in violence: Bomb kills 13 in Kohat
Dead include a woman and a child; 14 others wounded.
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Weapons purchase scam: PHC orders NAB to submit bail reports
Both Naveed and Ali have been behind bars for misappropriation in Rs7 billion weapons procurement deal for police.
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In the chaos: K-P refuses to scrap fledgling peace process
Says advisory committee will discuss law and order.
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Strike four: Health workers cover 300,000 homes
Roughly 0.6m children vaccinated across 77 UCs during Sehat ka Insaf.
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Physical remand: Accused in Shama Cinema blast sent into three-day police custody
The police wanted to keep the boy for 10 days to complete the investigation.
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New cases surface from Peshawar, NWA
This takes the country’s total to 21 this year, in comparison to only three cases reported at the same time last...
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No sound of music: Silenced nightingales
Singers of the Khyber Agency now live in anonymity and poverty due to threats.
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Peshawar, Delhi to play bilateral cricket series
Agreement reached between two cities for short tours.
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Enforced disappearances: Replies sought from federal govt, K-P IGP over 52 ‘missing’ persons
Petitioners told the bench their relatives were picked up from various areas and were untraceable.
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Efficient policing: Shama Cinema attack suspect nabbed from Lady Reading Hospital
Police claim 15-year-old was brainwashed to become a suicide bomber.
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Adding to the squad: The non-human members of BDU
AIG Malik claims the dogs can spot a bomb very easily and more swiftly than humans.
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Recreational purposes: K-P to snuff out city’s drug problem with rehabilitation centres
100-bed hospital at Hayatabad Medical Complex and Police Services Hospital to accommodate drug users.
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Clash on campus: UoP students sent to jail on judicial remand
8 activists of PkSF who were arrested from UoP were sent to Central Jail Peshawar on a 14-day judicial remand.
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Stalled peace talks: Taliban set own terms for ceasefire
TTP spokesperson claims govt killed 60 Taliban since the start of peace initiative.
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UoP clashes: Eight PkSf students sent on remand
Campus police produced eight students belonging to the Pukhtun Students Federation.
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Govt team says no talks till TTP shuns violence
Negotiators tell PM dialogue can’t advance in current circumstances.
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In custody: Kurram Agency PA to explain detention of jirga members
Tribal elders were arrested under FCR’s collective responsibility clause after failing to resolve dispute.
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Going green for ‘Peace’: LG minister promises 0.8m saplings to be planted across K-P
Meanwhile, 3.5 million young trees to be sowed across FATA.
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Targeted attack in Peshawar: Ex-Afghan Taliban minister gunned down
Maulvi Abdul Raqeeb was in favour of talks with Karzai govt.

















































