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‘Civil protection’: ‘Emergency training’ to help deal with calamities
Students will have to attend 60 classes during each academic session.
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Sidelined minorities: ‘The present system has turned us into second-class citizens’
Adherents of different faiths demand right to elect representatives.
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Security provisions: CM asks intelligence agencies to coordinate with candidates
Inform contestants, law enforcers of any possible threats.
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Mishaps: Six killed, eight injured in road accident
12 others wounded in separate incident.
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Internal rifts: JUI-F, PTI workers divided over ticket allotment in K-P, FATA
Alleged unfair allotment practices have compelled candidates to contest independently from their respective parties.
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Mustering support: Despite threats, Hoti kicks off election campaign
Says the decision to award him two party tickets was ANP’s, not his.
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Election fever: Record number of nomination papers filed in Lower Dir
110 hopefuls filed their papers, with 28 contesting for NA-34 and 82 competing for four provincial assembly seats.
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Economic manifesto: PPP promises to stabilise province’s war economy
Says agriculture tax will be introduced.
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Fresh races, old faces: Largest parties in K-P retain previously-elected lawmakers
The new provincial assembly will likely host many former seat holders.
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Elections 2013: Security plan chalked out for Khyber
A total of 170,000 voters are registered and steps have been taken to include the agency’s 59,219 female voters.
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Brain drain: Few specialists in sight for patients in K-P
A total of 180 senior posts lie vacant across the province.
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Bad blood: Discord surfaces in political parties during ticket awarding process
Fissures appeared over the ‘wrong’ selection of candidates.
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Swabi alliance: Four religious groups to contest elections together
JI, JUI-S and JITS decide to contest elections from one platform.
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Reaching out: ECP plans voting arrangements for IDPs
On the directives of the election commissioner, a list of all people residing in camps is being prepared.
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Common ground: JI calls for alliance with JUI-F
Central VP stresses JI and JUI-F needed to have a seat adjustment because of their common goals.
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Bannu attack: Bomb targeting ANP leader kills 2 elders
Six others, including ex-MPA Adnan Wazir, injured in the incident.
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Tribal woman breaks taboo, to contest election from FATA
Badam Zari aims to stand for NA-44 seat in Bajaur Agency .
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Tracing the trajectory of Aftab Sherpao and the Qaumi Watan Party
Winning the 2013 elections will mark a record of successive wins in the province.
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Lost in translation: With new medium of instruction, teachers fear students may not keep up
Educators concerned their own abilities will fall short.
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North Waziristan: 38 candidates submit papers
More election hopefuls expected to apply in the coming days.
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Assault: ANP leader attacked in Swabi
ANP’s district security chief was on his way home when gunmen on a motorbike intercepted his car.
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Lagging development: Social barriers hindering education on sensitive issues
NGO presents findings of baseline study on rights of adolescents.
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Widening cracks: Ticket allocation fuels internal dissent in Swat
Members of different parties resign after not being chosen as candidates.
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PPP, PML-N enter undeclared alliance in southern K-P
Partnership likely to leave JUI-F scrambling for votes.
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Bomb explosion: Office of NGO targeted in Hayatabad
Sawera’s executive director was gunned down in July last year.
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Attack foiled: TTP militants, police officer killed in Mardan attack
Taliban reject official versions, claim militants escaped unharmed.
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Attack near election rally in Bannu, kills two: Police
The blast occurred when Adnan Wazeer’s convoy was passing through the area.
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Runaway brides: Eloped sisters seek refuge in Peshawar
Three newlywed sisters have come to record their statements before a magistrate.
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Malakand political diary: ‘Mini-Larkana’ playing host to shifting loyalties
The once PPP stronghold is becoming an open field for other parties.
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Jumping ship: Former minister quits PPP
The ex-minister said he had extended a hand of friendship to the JUI-F after much consultation.
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After Jamrud killing, women back out of election duties
Experts claim this will have a negative impact on number of women voters in the region.
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Cost of tolerance: Cleric gunned down during prayers
The killer, Asif, was pasting offensive posters inside the Landay Sar mosque early Friday morning.
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Making history: Fata Tribunal takes notice of teacher’s killing
The tribunal took suo motu notice of the killing of Shehnaz Isthiaq.
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Under attack: Two cops killed, eight injured in G-B, K-P
DSP killed in police van ambush.
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No welcome for spring: Holi forgotten as gloom descends on city
Hindus cancel celebrations in light of security concerns.
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Peshawar blast: FC commandant escapes suicide attack
At least 12 dead, over two dozen wounded in the attack in high security zone.
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Peshawar suicide blast: Aspirations cut short
There was screaming everywhere around the area… everyone was calling for help: Eyewitness.
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Suicide bomber kills policeman, wounds six in Mardan
A suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police patrol car.
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PK-2: PTI workers threaten to quit party
Ask central leadership to reconsider decision of allotting party ticket.
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Three Afghan artillery shells land in Pakistan
Residents of Dadum village in North Waziristan say the shells landed in their area.
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Adequate safety for IDPs must be put in place: UN Rapporteur
Humanitarian aid workers must be protected and should not become the object of an attack, says UN official.
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Lawlessness: Two killed in violence
The police say the attackers were armed with TT pistols.
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IDP camp blast: From Khyber to Jalozai, death follows victims of war
Tamana was busy in her make-shift home at Jalozai Camp when an explosion occurred at its food-distribution point.
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LRH killing: Medical board to carry out second autopsy
Court asks board to exhume the body and have the remains sent to the Punjab Forensic Laboratory.
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Interim cabinet pores over security provisions
70% of the polling stations in the province declared ‘sensitive’.
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Temporary relief: North Waziristan curfew relaxed for 10 hours
Security check posts declared no-go areas.
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Backlash: Protest against Musharraf contesting from Chitral
Protesters appealed to the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take actions against the former president.
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Shot dead: Akhund Derwaiza shrine caretaker gunned down
Sixty-year-old Mian Ghulam Shah had been working at the shrine for the past 25 years.
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Falling out: ANP leader quits party
Zarshaid contested the 2008 elections from PK-31, Swabi-I, and expected the party would award him the ticket again.
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Stern decision: Cancel licences of schools not complying with sibling policy, tells PHC
Private sector has made educating children a “profit -oriented business": Bench

















































