- Shopkeepers continue overcharging customers even in Ramazan With the Eid-ul-Fitr coming nearer, shopkeepers have increased rates of daily used items while the profiteers and hoarders seem to be looking to gain the maximum benefit from the people’s helplessness in Battagram...
- Eid packages distributed among orphan children in Bajaur Al-Huda Center, a welfare organization distributed packages among 114 orphan children in Khar, the headquarter city of Bajaur Agency here on Thursday...
- Peshawar: PTI protested delay in Fata reforms’ implementation Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Fata chapter on Thursday held a protest demonstration in Peshawar against the delay in the implementation of Fata reforms...
- Minor injured in triumphant aerial firing dies in hospital The six-year-old child Naween Shah who was critically injured in the triumphant aerial firing after Pakistani cricket team beating the Indian side in the ICC Champion Trophy final has died in hospital in Peshawar...
- Gandapur cancels program to drop Eid gifts from aircraft in DI Khan Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Revenue and Estate Ali Amin Gandapur has cancelled program of dropping Eid cards and Eid gifts in his constituents in Dera Ismail Khan...
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Anti-FCR rally taken out in DI Khan
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
More rain expected in KP, Fata during next 24 hours
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
Five shops gutted down in Ashreet bazaar
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
Police constable shots dead man from rival group in judicial complex
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
475 patients treated at free medical camp
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
Father appeals to federal government for help in releasing his kidnapped for ransom in Turkey
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
Tesco cuts off power supply to Alam Goodar without prior notice
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
Pesco’s retired employees protest against delay in payment of month pension, other issues
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
Australia consolidate grip on Sydney Test
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
5 die after drinking toxic liquor in Peshawar
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
5 policemen among 15 injured in DI Khan blast
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
Insaf Cricket Tournament begins in Khyber Agency
Date: 04 Jan, 2017
FEATURES & INTERVIEWS – LATEST
- Climate change remains a cloud on horizon in KP
Unexpected heatwaves, floods, incessant deforestation and irregular urbanisation have rendered K-P extremely vulnerable to climate change.
The average temperature of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has increased alarmingly by one degree Celsius since 2005 to 2015 - Construction of security wall around Hayatabad hinders children’s education
A dweller of Tajabad, Muhammad Riaz had no other option but to drop his two children from the primary school in Phase-III. “My sons were enrolled in the government primary school but after the construction of the boundary wall, it is almost difficult for them to reach school in time. Being a poor person, I cannot afford to arrange private transport for their pick and drop. I am totally clueless what to do,” a worried Riaz says
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Fata Reforms
- Delay in the passage of reforms bill from parliament draws criticism from FATA people
The existing Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) law in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has always been under criticism from different quarters, while the successive governments also brought some changes in the controversial British-era law – the most important being the right to franchise in 1996 and political parties act extension to FATA in 2011. […]
- Reforms recommendations in the eyes of FATA people
After a long struggle against the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and administrative structure of FATA, the federal cabinet on 2 March, 2017 approved the proposals of FATA Reforms Committee. The main feature of the reforms package is scraping of FCR and replacing it with Riwaj Act under which a judge of the court will be […]
- Govt criticized for delaying approval of proposed reforms in FATA
PESHAWAR: Different governments have made attempts since the creation of Pakistan in 1947 to bring reforms in the administrative system of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), but the reforms were never implemented in letter and spirit. Efforts for reforms in FATA got momentum once again when FATA parliamentarians submitted a bill in the National […]
TDPs
- Sports activities get momentum in FATA with return of TDPs
Like other activities of life, sports activities also came to a halt in FATA due to law and order issues and the sports grounds presented a deserted look. However, the situation changed swiftly after the return of local people and now the political administration, FATA Secretariat and people in their private capacity are organising sports […]
- Matriculation exams conducted successfully amid repatriation, rehabilitation of TDPs in FATA
After years of displacement and reconstruction in tribal areas, the government successfully conducted matriculation exams in FATA this year. The FATA people were jubilant over holding of matric exams in their areas after a long time However, the students from Mehsuds-inhabited areas of South Waziristan Agency had to attend their exam in Dera Ismail Khan […]
- TDPs decry lack of facilities at ration, registration centers across FATA,KP
The repatriation process of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) has entered its final stage. According to the Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA), majority of the displaced families have so far been repatriated but still there are thousands of households who are still waiting for government’s approval to return […]
