Tag: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

In December last year, over 1,000 people led by some local clerics belonging to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) instigated the villagers to demolish the temple and as a result, people led by local seminary students attacked the temple.

Islamabad: Expressing love for the word Hindustan, a Pakistani youth was arrested by police in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Seeing “Hindustan Zindabad” written on the wall of a house in the Nara Amazai area of Haripur infuriated the local community, the daily Express news reported on Monday. According to police, Sajid Shah had been booked for treason under […]

Islamabad: Two young women were killed by their father “in the name of honour” in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Saturday. According to Bala Mani Deputy Superintendent of Police Fazal Wahid, Abdul Gani killed his daughters — 20-year-old Shamim and 10-year-old Noreen — in Peshawar’s Achar Kali area on September 20 and confessed to […]

Peshawar: A powerful bomb blast ripped through a busy market outside a religious seminary in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, killing at least 25 people and injuring over 35 others, officials said. The explosive material was planted in the Friday Market (Juma Bazar) near an imambargah, a Shia religious place, in Aurakzai tribal […]

Islamabad: At least three security personnel were killed and two others injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s northwest district of North Waziristan, local media reported. The explosion hit a check-post located in Raghzai area of Tehsil Shewa in North Waziristan, a district of the country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Xinhua reported on Sunday, […]

Peshawar: At least 24 people, including women and children, were killed when a bus carrying them fell in a ditch in northwest Pakistan, police said The incident occurred when the bus, carrying 35 passengers, was going to Kandia from Bagru of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “All 24 people belonging to the same tribe drowned when […]

Chandigarh: A former legislator from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has sought asylum in India, claiming that minorities were deprived of their rights in the neighbouring nation. Baldev Kumar (43), along with his wife and two children came to India last month and is presently staying at Khanna in Punjab’s Ludhiana […]