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Missing autopsy report: PHC issues notice to Kohat internment centre in charge
Asks to explain failure to comply with clear court orders.
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Human rights violation: SHO demoted after inquiry finds him guilty of abuse
Bashir Khan and two constables illegally detained and tortured a technician, leaving him partially disabled.
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Agreement across the aisle: Information minister slighted by treasury bench
Embarrassed by vote to not refer attention notice to standing committee.
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Peace committee member shot dead in Swat
Seventy-year-old Saadullah had served as peace committee member between 2009 and 2010
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Golen Gol Hydropower Project: Irregularity alleged in Chitral power project
SC seeks replies in plea challenging award of project to a foreign firm
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Breaking away: Won’t appeal against termination, says Javed Nasim
Nasim says he will continue to sit in provincial legislature as an independent MPA and will not join any other party
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Razed to the ground: Girls primary school blown up in Khyber Agency
Explosives were triggered by a remote control, destroying almost all the rooms along with the boundary wall
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Bring it on: MQM to ‘actively participate’ in polls in K-P
MQM leader says they are regrouping activists in the province
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For emergencies: KTH trains 80 people in basic life support
KTH Medical Superintendent Dr Muhammad Ali Chohan said around 100 more people will be trained by the end of the year
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Out the window: Petition seeking hike in salaries of prison employees dismissed
Govt’s representatives say they do not have enough resources
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Equal rights: Non-Muslims demand option of choosing school curriculum
Say they should be allowed to elect their own representatives in legislative bodies
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Amidst crises: ANP invites parties to join hands for IDPs
Asfandyar Wali urges political leadership to keep differences aside and unite for the cause
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Giving ultimatum: Energy consumers threaten to sever transmission line
Residents of Allai say they have been deprived of jobs, electricity from Allai Khwar Hydro Power Plant
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Assembly proceedings: K-P govt puts onus of LG polls on election commission
Says prerequisites complete, up to ECP to announce schedule for elections
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Ill-treatment: Thousands of patients suffering due to lack of zakat funds
Minister says money being spent on district-level hospitals rather than urban institutes
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Bleeding them dry: Ailing IDPs forced to walk miles in search of shelter
Many facing difficulties as transport is scarce and expensive
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Rewriting history
PTI government must not give in to pressures to create any kind of misunderstanding about our past in textbooks
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New initiative: Mehsud elders to mediate between govt, breakaway TTP faction
Secret meeting in Tank agrees to form 11-member Jirga to spearhead mediation
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Militants blow up girls' primary school in Khyber Agency
No group claimed responsibility for attack; officials believe banned militant group involved in latest act of terror
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Revised curriculum: JI pushes through its agenda on textbooks in K-P
Schools to revert to 2002 syllabus in April 2015 as PTI govt accepts demand.
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Tragic accident: Minor dies in grenade blast
A third-grade student died after a grenade went off in Akhundzadgan
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Blame game: ‘PTI protests distracting media from IDP plight’
Khattak blamed PTI Chief for deviating media attention from the displaced population through his sit-ins
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Jui-f rally blast: Samiul Haq condemns attack, demands probe
JUI-S condemned the assassination attempt on Maulana Fazlur Rehman
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Walking through history: Students visit Takht Bhai
50 boys taken to world heritage site as part of heritage awareness programme.
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Women at work: Swat’s first woman lawyer shows it’s not just a man’s job
Only in her 20s, Humaira fights criminal, civil cases and is a legal aid adviser for a UNDP project.
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A new script: Four books to revive Torwali language
Research, anecdotal history to be used to collect information about grammar, vocabulary and folk tales.
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Khattak calls for info department revamp
CM said the provincial Information and PR department should not operate as a mouthpiece of the government.
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Nick of time: Mass casualties avoided as Muharram terror plot foiled
Police seized a large cache of arms and explosives concealed in a seasonal stream.
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Pruning urban growth: Peshawar High Court comes to Galiyat’s rescue
Forms commission to probe violations of building regulations after govt fails to constitute ‘master plan’.
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The corruption agenda: Javed Naseem to ‘continue Imran’s mission as independent MPA’
Lawmaker’s PTI membership was suspended after he failed to respond to a show-cause notice.
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Offshoots of extremism: TTP pamphlets prohibit music, shaving beards
The militant literature was pasted outside a mosque in Mattani.
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‘Most polio workers uneducated and untrained’
Over 700,000 children vaccinated in Peshawar district.
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K-P fires off first formal request for LG polls
Until authorities make amendments in rules, ECP won’t consider request
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Crisis Management: Flour mill owners demand wheat quotas
PFMA Swabi chapter demanded that wheat quotas should be introduced with immediate effect.
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Expressing Discontent: OGDCL employees protest privatisation
members of chapter protested against the privatisation of 10% shares of OGDCL
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Backlog: 5,982 cases of timber smuggling pending in K-P
Forest dept registered 7,910 cases in 2013.
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Sticking together: Disgruntled PTI MPAs lobby for deputy speaker’s post
Have reportedly agreed to support Zahid Durrani for the seat.
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Legal facilitation: Judicial complex being built in DI Khan
PHC CJ Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel said solid measures were being taken to help law officials
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Away from home: Refugee school closed down on ‘discriminatory grounds’
UNHCR’s move will deprive 350 students, say teachers.
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Dual status: Pakistani citizenship for Afghan refugees draws tribal elders’ ire
Elders reject decision of Kurram Agency’s former political agent, accusing him of taking bribes.
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Right to health care: PHC urged to announce verdict in substandard drug case
Interferon is not available in public health centres as it is a subject of litigation.
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Health hazard: A case of the ever-expanding waste line
Sadiq Khan is one of hundreds of children who deal with hospital waste for a pittance
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Alarming statistic: ‘40,000 women contract breast cancer every year’
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa records highest number of cases from the country in 2013.
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Polio cases in the city linked to Khyber Agency
One-day immunisation campaign to be conducted in all 97 union councils.
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K-P govt sends formal request to ECP for holding LG polls
K-P government has sent formal request to hold local government elections in the province to the ECP
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Breach of discipline: PTI cancels Javed Naseem's party membership
Naseem had failed to reply to the show-cause notice served to him
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Unpaid power dues: K-P can move SC against federal govt, warns Khattak
Says the provincial govt has Rs57b pending against the centre in terms of net hydel profit
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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: CM vows to make province a development model
Holds strategic dialogue for socio-economic progress
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Motive unknown: Two bodies found in DI Khan
Bullet-riddled body of Mushtaq was found from a field in Zani Khel area of Kulachi tehsil
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Neighbourhood watch: China, a key ally for post-NATO Afghanistan
President Ghani to travel to China next week to discuss economic, security cooperation