LANDIKOTAL: At least three people including two children and a woman were killed in hours long heavy downpour spill that devastated the normal life in the last two days destroyed dozens of homes and killed a number of pet animals in various areas of district Khyber, officials said on Monday. Assistant commissioner of Landikotal Irshad
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LANDIKOTAL: Provincial minister Allama Muhammad Adnan Qadri visited Landikotal where he met and condoled the tragic deaths of a woman and her newborn with the bereaved family. District Police Officer Khyber Salim Abbas Kulachi,civil society workers and other officials also accompanied the minister. Adnan Qadri told the people gathered around him at the Hujra(male guests
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LANDIKOTAL: The provincial minister Allama Muhammad Adnan Qadri ordered inquiry after a woman and her child died due to the negligence of Labour room staff at district Headquarters hospital in Landikotal,sources said on Friday. Provincial minister told the news by phone that he was informed about the alleged negligence by the health staff at DHQ
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PESHAWAR: A cop martyred when terrorists attacked the polio post-campaign assessment team in the limits of Raghzai police station in Manra area of Tehsil Birmal in South Waziristan Lower district on Friday. Station House Officer(SHO) Zabihullah Wazir journalists that the post-polio campaign assessment/monitoring team was on a visit to Manra area. He said unknown gunmen
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LANDIKOTAL: Police foiled a bid to smuggle narcotics from Landikotal to Peshawar and arrested two piddlers, officials said on Thursday. Station House Officer(SHO) Landikotal Amjad Khan Afridi said that taking action on a tip off they constituted police teams and raided a godown in Landikotal bazaar. He said they recovered 12kg Hashish(Chars) and 2400gm Ice
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LANDIKOTAL: Customs intelligence along with Frontier Corp(FC)North foiled a bid to smuggle narcotics from district Khyber to Peshawar and arrested the piddler, officials said on Monday. Customs intelligence deputy director Amanat Khan told The News that taking action on the prior information conveyed by Director Genral Faiz Ahmed Chadhrr and Shafqat Ali Khan Niazi, regional
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LANDIKOTAL: Traders and Torkham custom agents on Friday alleged that all departments at Torkham conduct their operations but Frontier Corps(FC)personnel intentionally use delay tactics that cause traffic jam in Torkham border due to which traders and truckers were facing financial losses. Speaking to a crowded press conference Torkham custom agents association chairman Mirajuddin Shinwari, president
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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