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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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LANDIKOTAL: A man died while two others including a pedestrian seriously injured when gunfire took place in Landikotal bazaar on Tuesday, police said. Police officer Turab Khan and Ayaz Khan told this scribe by phone that two parties first used harsh language and scuffled over a monitory dispute in bazaar. They said according to victim
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PESHAWAR: The political parties leaders and civil society members including tribal elders held a grand jirga on Thursday urged the government, police and law-enforcing agencies to take effective steps for the restoration of lasting peace and curbing target-killing and other crimes in Bajaur tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The grand jirga held at Khar, the
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LANDIKOTAL: District Police Officer(DPO)Salim Abbas Kalachi on Thursday said that they want an easy and swift dispute resolution system so that local conflicts and petty issues could be resolved with the help of local people. Salim Abbas Kalachi said this while addressing the first ever Dispute Resolution Council(DRC)established in Landikotal Police Station. He said the
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LANDIKOTAL: Torkham border remained closed for several hours after tension raised between Pakistan and Afghaniatan over the installation of signboard at near Torkham border on Wednesday. A border official said that Emarat-e-Islami raised concerns when they started installation of a signboard with the welcoming slogan on it. He said they had written welcome word in
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TORKHAM: Customs Appraisement officials at Torkham border foiled an attempt to smuggle millions of ruppes of precious stones from Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said. Custom official Ayaz told said that taking action on a tip-off, a coal loaded truck(KBL-1881) coming from Afghanistan, was intercepted at Torkham border. He said that during search, they recovered 71
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TORKHAM: Residents, porters and social workers on Friday staged protest in Landikotal and Torkham bazaars to record their protest against the Pakistani labourers who have been stopped by Emarat-e-Islami at Torkham border to enter Pakistan. The first protest rally led by Kalimullah Shinwari and others marched in Landikotal bazaar and ended outside the Landikotal press
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) fully supported a fatwa issued by the scholars that suicide attacks were prohibited (Haram) under the title of unjust killing and justified the state security institutions action against them. The PUC’s support to the fatwa came during a meeting of its Central Majlis-e-Shura and Ameela held under the chairmanship
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LANDIKOTAL: Chief Collector Customs of Khyber Pakhunkhwa Saeed Akram on Thursday said that in the past four moths custom authorities have seized a record contrabands and non custom paid items worth million of rupees. Chief collector custom Khyber Pakhunkhwa Saeed Akram was speaking to journalists at Torkham Zero point. He said that they have taken
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