….as The Daily Vendor correspondent wins Khyber Pakhtunkhwa best reporter shield PESHAWAR: Chief Collector Customs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Salim on behalf of Federal Board of Revenue(FBR) chairman awarded shields, The Daily Vendor, Express news and Geo Television journalists for their outstanding coverage that helped enhance the Pak-Afghan and central Asian trade in the past one
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US Ambassador, Blome visits Prime Minister
ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador to Pakistan Mr, Donald Blome called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday in Islamabad. The Prime Minister thanked the United States for its continued support for Pakistan’s post-flood reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts, including at the recently held International Conference on Resilient Pakistan in Geneva. The Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reiterated
Read moreFBR Chief Says Torkham Dry Port Is Land Mark For KP Customs
PESHAWAR: Federal Board of Revenue Chairman Asim Ahmad on Thursday said that Torkham state of the art dry port was the land mark for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which would contribute a handsome amount to the national economy. Chairman FBR Asim Ahmad was chief guest at ceremony.He was speaking to the ceremony of world customs day
Read moreTraders Demand Security On Pak-Afghan Road
LANDIKOTAL:Transporters and traders on Sunday said that removing all the police checkposts along the Karkhano markets-Torkham highway made transporters and commuters more vulnerable who could easily be targeted while traveling on road. Speaking to a press conference here in Landikotal press club Torkham Custom Clearance Agents Association Chairman Mirajuddin Shinwari, Khyber Chamber of Commerce deputy
Read moreWeapons seized at Torkham
…the weapons were discovered after a customs appraisement staff stopped a truck at Torkham border LANDIKOTAL: Pakistan Customs at Torkham border foiled a bid to smuggle weapons from Afghanistan, officials said on Monday. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Customs chief collector spokesman Sohail Khan told The Daily Vendor that on the basis of credible information customs appraisement staff
Read moreRally in Waziristan against lawlessness
…ask the authorities to take steps to improve worsening law and order in South Waziristan WANA: A large number of people, including workers of various political parties, staged a protest rally against the rising wave of militancy and lawlessness in the restive South Waziristan tribal district. The Wana Ulasi Pasoon had organised the protest at
Read moreOne Killed in Torkham Gun fire, Heroin Seized
LANDIKOTAL: An Afghan citizen was killed while few others including a Pakistani paramilitary soldier sustained bullet wounds when an Afghan border police opened gun firing to dispersed the mob gathered on the Torkham border inside Afghanistan,official sources said on Thursday. The sources said that an Afghan border police opened gun firing when dozens of truck
Read moreCustoms seizes 0.4million USD in six months
…As Pakistan customs authorities widen its vigilance, increase staff on the border points and at Bacha Khan airport TORKHAM: On the directives of Prime Minister,Pakistan Customs strated crackdown at Torkham border and foiled three different bids to smuggle foreign currency to Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. Moeenuddin Ahmad Wani, Customs Collector Enforcement Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told
Read more68 Journalists killed in 2022, 5 in Pakistan
…The IFJ recorded 68 killings of journalists and media staff in 2022 PESHAWAR: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today released its annual list of journalists and media staff killed in work-related incidents, warning of the return of the open season on media professionals with a spike in the numbers of killings from last year.
Read morePoor Law & Order In Tribal Districts A Major Concern – JUI-F
…As grand tribal jirga rejects merger of tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa PESHAWAR: The grand tribal jirga here on Saturday rejected the merger of the tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and termed it the failure of the government. The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF)-convened jirga discussed the prevailing law and order situation in the tribal districts. The
Read moreGovernor Lauds Journalists’ Role For Peace In Erstwhile Fata
…Governor Ghulam Ali spoke at the oath taking ceremony of Tribal Union of Journalists (NMDs) Interim council PESHAWAR: Praising the efforts and sacrfices journalists for the homeland,the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor Haji Ghulam Ali on Thursday said that no doubt that tribal journalists have played their important role in peacebuilding and development of ex-Fata in the
Read moreLandikotal resident kidnapped in Sindhi safely released
…The 34 year old was kidnapped a month ago in Kashmor locality where he went to purchase a truck LANDIKOTAL: The Landikotal resident who was kidnapped by daopits in Kashmor district of Sindh for ransome released and safely reached to home in Khyber Sultankhel on Wednesday. Imran Khan Afridi,34,was made hostage by dacoits a month
Read morePEC awards re-accreditation to UAJK Engineering program
…The re-accreditation under Washington Accord will provide new opportunities to the engineering graduates Muzaffarabad: Pakistan Engineering Council in its 108th EAB meeting held on 08 December, 2022 at PEC HQ, Islamabad, decided to award Level-II Re-Accreditation for the Engineering Programs (BS-Electrical Engineering & BS Software Engineering) being offered at the University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir-Muzaffarabad.
Read moreRole of Government in Higher Education
“The exclusion of higher education from the list of fundamental rights means that the government is not bound to incur unnecessary expenses on people of all intellectual levels” Dr. Atiq ur Rehman Kashmir Institute of Economics, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir After 2018, discouraging news about the financial position of public universities has become
Read moreJubilation in Landikotal as 35-year old enmity changes into friendship
…Jirga members said it took a year to convince the parties to end the enmity PESHAWAR: Thirty-five years old enmity that had claimed several lives between two families in Landikotal changed into friendship on Tuesday. The families of Malik Nadir Khan Mirdadkhel and Haji Arabistan Mirdadkhel village in Landikotal had three decads long enmity. It
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