KHYBER: District Police Officer Khyber Salim Abbas Kalachi on Monday removed nine more police officers from service after they were found guilty in an official inquiry. A notification here issued stated that DPO Khyber Salim Abbas Kalachi had suspended nine policemen after they were charged in secrete relations with narcotics dealers and traffickers. A police
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Special Persons Demand Quota In Govt Jobs
LANDIKOTAL: Demanding for quota in all government jobs,special persons in Landikotal on Wednesday said that influentials have deprived of their livelihood and compelled them to begging in bazaars. Speaking to a press conference held at Landikotal press club disabled Welfare Organization Landikotal president Qari Anwr Jamal and General Secretary Shah Fahad said that their seats
Read moreTorkham border reopens after 10 days closure
LANDIKOTAL: Hundreds of trucks started their transportation on Tuesday after Torkham border closed for all kind of transportation was reopened after 10 days, officials said. They said that as the border was reopened for transportation more than 500 loaded trucks parked at Pakistani side proceeded their movment. Custom officials said they allowed cargo vehicles to
Read moreSpecial persons receive free artificial limbs
LANDIKOTAL: The Pakistan Institute of Prosthetic and Orthotics (PIPSO) provided artificial limbs to 16 special persons in Landikotal on Monday. A ceremony was arranged at the District Headquarters Hospital in Landikotal, attended by doctors, paramedical staff, elders, and family members of special persons. Assistant Commissioner of Landikotal, Irshad Ali Mohmand, was the special guest.Irshad Ali
Read moreTraders stage protest against Torkham Border closure
TORKHAM: Custom agents,traders and transporters on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration in Torkham and chanted slogans for the reopening of Torkham border that has been closed on Saturday over the passport and visa condition placed for cargo vehicles drivers and their helpers. The protesters were holding placards and black flags marched in Torkham bazaar. Torkham custom
Read moreTorkham Border Remained Closed On 4th Day
TORKHAM: Pak-Afghan border Torkham was remained closed on the forth consecutive day, suffering around 50 million rupees every day to the national exchequre, traders said on Tuesday. Border officials said that the federal government has imposed visa condition for drivers of cargo vehicles entering from Afghanistan on November 1, last year. They said Afghan government was
Read moreAfghan Taliban visit to Pakistan sparks talks
PESHAWAR: The governor of Kandahar and Deputy Head of Military Intelligence of Emarat-e-Islami, Haji Mullah Shireen visited Islamabad to engage in talks with Pakistani authorities sparked diplomatic talks in Pakistan. This visit comes against the backdrop of rising tensions between the two neighbouring countries over cross-border terrorism, particularly concerning the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The discussions
Read moreSix Barbers Gunned Down In Waziristan
PESHAWAR: Six barbers were apparently kidnapped and brutally murdered and their bodies dumped in a field in Mir Ali tehsil in North Waziristan tribal district on Tuesday,sources said on Wednesday. Local and official sources said that the bullet-riddled bodies of six men were found in the field in Muski village located in Mir Ali.All the
Read moreFata Merger is a Redline for Pakistan, TTP
PESHAWAR: Afghan Emarat-e-Islami Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has claimed that Pakistan and banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have close to striking a deal as both parties had several rounds of talks and most of the issues between them had been sorted out. Muttaqi made these claims during a conversation with Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed in Tehran on
Read moreCommand & Control Centre in Khyber will help maintain security, says IGKP
LANDIKOTAL: To maintain the security situation in district Khyber, the firstever command and control centre inaugurated in Jamrud tehsil of district Khyber on Tuesday. Inspector General of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police(IGP) Akhar Hayat Khan and Capital City Police(CCPO)Sayed Ishfaq Anwar formally inaugurated the newly established command and control centre. Command and control centre would monitor all
Read moreIndian Medicines Seized At Torkham
TORKHAM: Customs authorities foiled a bid to smuggle Indian medicines and arrested a person,official said on Tuesday. Customs official Mujahid Khan said that custom personnel at Torkham import terminal recovered a cache of Indian medicines from a truck bearing regusteration number(KAB-24128).He said the truck was loaded with onions. He said the truck had entered to
Read moreIce Drug, Ammunition Seized At Torkham
LANDIKOTAL:Torkham custom appraisment force foiled a bid to smuggle a cape of narcotics and ammunition to Pakistan and arrested the afghan national, officials said on Saturday. Custom official Mujaid Khan said on a tip off shared by custom collector appraisment Peshawar they stopped a loaded truck(KBL3447)as it entered Pakistan from Afghanistan via Torkham border. He
Read moreResidents Protest killing of construction Workers
PESHAWAR: Residents staged a protest demonstration in Shakai on Saturday against the killing of 5 laborers in the heartbreaking incident of Daza Ghundai area in South Waziristan Lower the other day. Thousands of protesters attended was led by tribal elders, youths, scholars and political parties. Provincial assembly candidate Taj Muhammad Wazir, said that innocent people
Read moreCurrency, cell phones seized at Torkham
TORKHAM: Torkham custom appraisment officials foiled bids to smuggle mobile cell phones and foreign currency and arrested the piddler, officials said on Tuesday. Assistant collector Torkham custom appraisment Fariha Naqvi told this scribe that they recovered 0.1 million Saudi Riyals from an Afghanistan bounded truck in Torkham. She said the currency was tried to smuggle
Read moreTwo Soldiers Killed In District Khyber
KHYBER: Unidentified armed men martyred two soldiers of the Frontier Corps(FC) in Tirah Valley of upper of the Khyber Tribal district on Monday, official and local sources said.The sources that the personnel of the bomb disposal squad were on duty for clearing the roadside when militants opened gun firing on them in Mamal Pati area
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