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Flood death toll hits 430
Villagers move to safety from a flooded village near Nowshera, in Pakistan's Pakhtoonkhwa province, on Thursday. ... |
Two other Sikhs are rescued. ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces on Monday recovered two
of three Sikhs kidnapped for ransom in the country's volatile northwest,
a security o ... |
Peshawar in the dark and kept cold. A spate of bombings in Peshawar has kept the Pukhtunkhwa capital in
the headlines in recent times. But unknown to people outside the
city, the daily ... |
Killing Pashto Academy PESHAWAR: Having failed to sustain pressure from the Pakhtun
nationalist Awami National Party-led NWFP government, the University of
Peshawar (UoP) ... |
The Sikhs of Swat move to their shrine Members of Pakistan’s tiny Sikh community have joined an exodus of hundreds of
thousands of people fleeing fighting in the northwest and rising fear ... |
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Drone fired missile kills 26 in Kurram PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) –
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least 26 people, many of them Taliban militants, in Pakistan's Kurram tri ... |
Another day another Bomb in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Dec 5: At least 22 people were killed and over 90 others
injured when a car bomb ripped through a congested locality of KoosA
Risalda ... |
New strikes in Ba'Jawar KHAR, Nov 9: Fourteen militants and four non-combatants were killed when air force jets bombed militants’ hideouts in Bajaur on Sunday.A political adm ... |
3 killed in Kabul Unknown gunmen have killed three people in the Afghan capital, Kabul, including two foreigners, police said.
The attack took place in front of the o ... |
With Friends Like These The US vs. Pakistan: With Allies like These
By SIMON ROBINSON / ISLAMABAD Simon Robinson / Islamabad – 1 hr 5 mins ago
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Two sets of Laws - PATA to have Sharia PESHAWAR, Oct 6: NWFP Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani on Monday approved the summary of the proposed Sharia Nizam-i-Adl Regulation for the troubled Malakan ... |
Rockets rain on Mardan MARDAN, Aug 5: Eight rockets fired from Shakar Mora in the suburbs of Mardan landed in different areas of the city early on Tuesday morning.According ... |
President Bush has some insight: NEW YORK, July 7: US President George Bush has said that the biggest challenge for the next President of the United States would be Pakistan and not I ... |
Taliban planning Pehawar's takeover KHYBER AGENCY, Pakistan: Pakistani forces blew up a militant leader's headquarters and pounded other suspected Taliban bases with mortar fire Saturday ... |
Dre Mehsuds to meet Owais Ghani TANK, May 19: A Mehsud tribal jirga which will meet NWFP Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani on Tuesday is expected to demand reopening of closed roads to help ... |
Adeel, Jagra elected senators PESHAWAR, April 28: Awami National Party’s senior vice-president Haji Mohammad Adeel and Pakistan Muslim League-N’s secretary-general Iqbal Zafar Jhag ... |
Pak Army destroying Peshawar Parks PESHAWAR, April 21: Cantonment Board authorities have turned a portion of a British-era public park into a car parking lot on the directives of the Co ... |
US Drone makes a kill WANA, Feb 28: Eight suspected militants, four of them Arabs and two from Central Asian states, were killed and three others wounded in a missile atta ... |
NA-4 Projected winner Arbab Zahir 2008 Election ResultNA-4 Peshwar-IV
2008 Results : Arbab Zahir Winner
Winning Party
Winning Candidate
Votes Polled for Winner
Runneru ... |
SWAT skiing suffers - people suffer. The government and army’s claim of restoring normality in Swat notwithstanding, tourism in this highly picturesque region received a major set-back as ... |
NWFP to be renamed Afghania. PESHAWAR, July 31: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government has finally decided to seek a non-controversial name -- Afghania -- for the NWFP which has b ... |
Is there a name in our future? PESHAWAR, March 1: The NWFP government has sought advice from a constitutional expert and an author of the 1973 Constitution, Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, o ... |
Peace Jirga The new initiative in the form of convening of the Peace Jirga
recently by Pashtuns in Peshawar, should not only be taken as a good
omen, but also a ... |
United they stand? United they standBy Mohammed A.R. Galadari 8 October 2006 DESPITE
its initial reservations, Kabul has apparently come round to
appreciating Islamab ... |
Akbar Bugti murdered by Pakistan Army Body taken to Islamabad, says Mazari: ‘Let me bury my brother with honour’
KARACHI, Aug 28: Veteran politician Sherbaz Khan Mazari has refuted
gov ... |
Pashto messenger launched! Pashto messenger launched KABUL,
June 20 (Pajhwok Afghan News): Israr Ahmad Karimzai, a whiz-kid web
developer of Pajhwok Afghan News, on Tues ... |
US-Pak cyber lovers tie the knot US-Pak cyber lovers tie the knotLove knows no boundaries.PESHAWAR:
The Internet has brought together a 55-year old American woman and a
Pakistani ma ... |
The viceroy of Baghdad The viceroy of Baghdad
He
neatly outwitted a king in his native Afghanistan, but Bush's third
fixer in Iraq wi ... |
Communists remember Bhagat Singh! Hangal
vividly remembered the day when Bhagat Singh was hanged. He was a young student
in Peshawar at that time. The next day there was a public mee ... |
Meanwhile in Qatar. Pak forum elects officialsPak
Pakhtoon Welfare Society (PPWS), a socio-welfare body of Pashto
speaking people, has announced a new team of office be ... |
Legal books donated to Afghanistan UK denotes 10,000 legal books to Afghanistan
London, April 13, IRNA
UK-Afghanistan-Legal Books
The professional body of barristers in the U ... |
Can a Pashtun be bought ? Lodi Terror Case Goes to the Jury
In
closing arguments, two different portraits of Hamid Hayat emerge: a
would-be killer, or a man manipulated ... |
Have Hekmatyar’s Radicals Reformed? Have Hekmatyar’s Radicals Reformed?
A powerful faction in the new Afghan parliament may still be
controlled by a man regarded as a terroris ... |
Unemployment hits warriors Afghan warriors now battle unemployment
By Kim Barker
Tribune foreign correspondent
Published April 6, 2006, 5:09 PM CDT
... |
Pakistani "Taliban" Pakistani "Taliban" battling for control of tribal region
Maintain ties to remnants of ousted Taliban
By Declan Walsh, Globe Correspondent |&n ... |
Bird flu in Pukhtunkhwa March 21: Officials on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of any more
bird flu infections in the country after laboratory tests confirmed the
presenc ... |
War of Words
Kabul vs Islamabad: a war of words
Irfan Husain
16 - 3 - 2006
While insurgency rages across their borders, Afghanistan ... |
That is a lot of weapons, man! Biggest Afghan weapons cache seizedKABUL,
Afghanistan, March 15 (UPI) -- NATO-led forces in Afghanistan have
recovered the biggest cache of weapons ... |
Details of Pakistan Senate Election. Ruling PML secures thumping victory in Senate Polls
ISLAMABAD:
Ruling Pakistan Muslim League and its coalition partners scored a
thumping vict ... |
A war of Words.. A WAR of words is on
between Afghanistan and Pakistan. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan
has repeatedly accused Pakistan of not doing "enough" t ... |
Caught (or was it entrapment?)
TERROR TRIAL Defense admits to tall tales, not crimes Informant says camp attendance never confirmed
- Demian Bulwa, Chroni ... |
An FBI Sting operation. From friend to star witness
Pakistanis in Lodi welcomed a stranger - an FBI informant.
By Crystal Carreon -- Bee Staff WriterMarch 3, 2006
LODI - ... |
He's Welcome In Pakistan He's Welcome In PakistanBy Ahmed RashidSunday, February 26, 2006; B01LAHORE
When President Bush lands in Islamabad later this week, it may be the
cl ... |
Offensive Cartoons Protested.
Pakistan's Violent Protests Over Cartoons Take a Political Turn
By SALMAN MASOOD
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan,
Feb. 15 — Tens of thousands ... |
Overseas Baloch demonstrate ..
A group of people demonstrated before the Pakistan Embassy here to
protest the army's offensive against agitating tribal rebels in the
country's s ... |
Baluchistan is again in the news... Baluchistan is again in the news, but for wrong reasons. Truth to tell,
it has not been as much in the news as it should have been. And it is
somewh ... |
Letters link students of two worlds Letters link students of two worlds
Afghan kids' concerns differ sharply with those of Canadians
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Children in four Canad ... |
Wanted: A Few Good Taliban Recruits Wanted: A Few Good Taliban Recruits Feb.
20, 2006 issue - Taking a cue from the media-savvy Iraqi insurgency,
the Taliban has produced its first fun ... |
Offensive Cartoons story follow up. SAR Danes try to brush aside furor
In
his white, minimalistic Happy Valley apartment, Anders Pedersen, his
fiancee Karina Trebbien and a vis ... |
Pukhtunkhwa: More die in Hangu 37 die in two Hangu blasts, violence
By Abdul Saboor Khan
HANGU, Feb 10: Death toll on Friday rose to 37 and the number of injured to 91 in two da ... |
Description of the Offensive cartoons
The Islamic star and crescent partially symbolizing the face of Muhammad; his right eye is the star, the crescent surrounds his beard and face.Muham ... |
Sports: Is Irfan a real Pathan?
Is Irfan a real Pathan? Does he speak Pashto?
By Qaiser Mohammad Ali, Peshawar: Irfan Pathan
not only poses problems to batsmen with his s ... |
Cartoons - BBC Q&A
Q&A: The Muhammad cartoons row
Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad publi ... |
Afghan talent show
Afghan talent show a hit four years after the Taliban
Fri Jan 6, 10:35 AM ET
... |
Wali Khan passes away from The Nation Wali Khan passes away (The
Nation (Pakistan) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)PESHAWAR, JAN 26 (THE
NATION) - Veteran nationalist politician and leade ... |
Pukhtunkhwa: Wali Khan laid to rest Wali Khan laid to rest
PESHAWAR, Jan 27: Thousands of mourners turned up at the funeral of
Khan Abdul Wali Khan here on Friday at the Jinnah Park. ... |
Afghanistan: Devout Democracies Devout Democracies
Self-Rule in the Middle East Will Have a Religious Component, but that Doesn't Mean It Won't Work
By R ... |
Bookseller of Kabul now running away Bookseller on the runShah Mohammad Rais, better known as the "Bookseller of Kabul", says he fears blood vengeance after Åsne Seierstad's bestselling b ... |
Durand Line
KABUL, Oct 29 (SANA): With all problems their country is facing, it would seem unlikely that Afghans would spare much time to fulminate over a ... |
Afghans aid troops Afghans aid troops on treacherous rocky trails
Roger Roy
Sentinel Staff Writer
... |
Gitmo: Detainee's fate still unknown GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA, Oct 14 (Bernama) -- United States Commander of
the Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Cuba, Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood,
said here T ... |
Transcript of the TV show. TranscriptREPORTER: John Martinkus
This is how the Americans are now fighting in
Afghanistan - loaded up with guns and loud music. The racks of ... |
Earthquake story..Battagram City BATTAGRAM: Victims of the October 8 quake have called upon the
government and the international community to provide them with a large
number of ten ... |
Earthquake: An opportunity? Disaster opportunity?
By Arnaud de Borchgrave
Published October 15, 2005
Pakistan's
worst natural disaster in its 58-year history, which killed te ... |
Earthquake story..Doha Pakhtoon organisations to set up relief camp
IN
THE aftermath of the worst earthquake in Pakistan’s recent history,
four Doha-based Pakhtoo ... |
Song and dance on the terror trail
Song and dance on the
terror trail By Syed Saleem Shahzad
KARACHI - After spending billions of dollars and devoting thousands of people ... |
A big hoax .. According to a source, who does not wish to be named, due to the
sensitive nature of the story, has to the PF that the Gay marriage
story which was ... |
Earthquake story.. Abbottabad Massive destruction in rural parts of Hazara
ABBOTTABAD, Oct 12 : Devastating earthquake kills another
eight hundred peop ... |
The Earthquake's other impact .. Commentary: Disaster opportunity?
By Arnaud de BorchgraveUPI Editor at Large
Published October 11, 2005
Pakistan's
worst natural disaster in its 5 ... |
Earthquake story..
Pakistan struggles to get quake aid effort underway
Pakistan struggled to haul food and shelt ... |
Earthquake story..Anger Rising Anger is growing among survivors of the South Asia earthquake over
the apparently slow response to a disaster which has left over 20,000
dead.
... |
Earthquakes .. Helping hands for Pakhtuns
They dig bare-fisted through the rubble. They dig throughout the day
and night, beyond all reason they dig with a pa ... |
Earthquake story.. 50 children buried alive as death toll rises
By Zahid Hussein
Balakot, Pakistan: With hands, picks and shovels, desperate parents
... |
Earthquake story..
Pakistan accepts Indian aid offer for quake victims
Pakistan said on Monday it would accept r ... |
World sends aid to Pakistan
By Ralph Gowling2 hours, 54 minutes ago
World leaders stepped up efforts to help
earthquake-battered Pakistan ... |
Earthquake story..
Rescuers Try to Reach Asia Quake Survivors
By SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press Writer 1 ... |
On Patrol In Afghanistan
On Patrol In Afghanistan: Airlifting troops from enemy territory just one of Delta Company's missions
By Chris Austin
For The Register-Guard
Publ ... |
Abdul Latif Hakimi is captured
Taliban spokesman seized
From correspondents in Islamabad, Pakistan
05oct05
PAKISTANI security forces arrested the chief sp ... |
Afghanistan: Election news (NYT)
Monitors Find Significant Fraud in Afghan Elections
By CARLOTTA GALL
KABUL, Afghanistan,
Oct. 2 - Election officials and ob ... |
"Taliban" news
Taliban Say Islamic Emirate Is Now In 11 Afghan Provinces!Sep 22, 2005
By Ahmad Al-Marid, JUS Afghan Correspondent
Taliban spokesman A ... |
AFGHAN ELECTIONS: Low turnout. KABUL, Afghanistan (UPI) -- Early returns in the Afghan elections
show a lower than expected voter turnout for the parliamentary race.
According ... |
Pakistan-Israel relations
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
told U.S. Jewish leaders on Saturday that granting the
Palestinians statehood would help ... |
Road warriors ROAD WARRIORS: U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Taliban wages war against a helping hand Villagers seek out Army lieutenant to aid local pro ... |
Radio broadcasts "Borderline” Radio Program Broadcasts to Afghans and Pakistanis
Photo: Internews/ ... |
SF Chronicle Story: In the days after federal agents arrested five residents of Lodi in
a terror investigation in June, a clean-cut young man who had befriended the
s ... |
Pukhtunkhwa: MMA losing elections? Islamic fundamentalists have been soundly beaten
in local elections in Pakistan, a result hailed yesterday by President
Musharraf as a “defeat for t ... |
US troops offensive AP: U.S. troops begin Afghan offensive
By Daniel Cooney, Associated Press Writer | August 13, 2005
KANDAGAL, Afghanistan --U.S. Ma ... |
Still no Pashtunkhwa!
Attempt to rename border province flounders
Web posted at: 7/21/2005 1:42:11
Source ::: Internews
PESHAWAR:
An attempt ... |
Pakistani troops killed 17 Pakistani troops killed 17 people yesterday, including women and
children whom the military called combatants in a region bordering
Afghanistan.
... |
Kazakhs were among the rebels killed ISLAMABAD, July 18 (RIA Novosti, Yevgeni Pakhomov) - Kazakhs were
among the rebels killed on Sunday by Pakistani security forces in
Northern Vaziris ... |
AFGHAN WARLORD CONVICTED in UK
London,
18 July (AKI) - A powerful Afghan warlord, Faryadi Sarwar Zardad, has
been convicted in a British court of t ... |
NWFP PA passes Hasba bill (from Dawn) NWFP PA passes Hasba bill
PESHAWAR, July 14: The NWFP Assembly on Thursday passed the
controversial Hasba bill with a majority vote amid mild prot ... |
More about the HASBA law... ‘Hasba bill to isolate MMA’
By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, July 9: The NWFP government’s plan to enact a new law to
create religious watchdogs h ... |
Stung in an Afghan 'hornets' nest'
Andrew North
BBC News at US Camp Tillman, Afghan-Pakistan border
A routine mission for a small unit of US troops based here turned into a fight ... |
Hasba Law & now Hasba Police. Hasba law gives more powers to ombudsman
From Dawn Newspaper.
By Sadia Qasim Shah
PESHAWAR, July 3: The government has proposed to enhance po ... |
From the NYT: US Troops .. U.S. Troops Still Missing After Crash in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan, July 1 - Still searching for a small
reconnaissance team, hundreds of ... |
Canadian Politics Canada PM wins no-confidence vote
BBC Thursday, 19 May, 2005
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has survived a no-confidence motion by a single vo ... |
How a Fire Broke Out? The story of a sensitive NEWSWEEK report about alleged abuses at Guantánamo Bay and a surge of deadly unrest in the Islamic world.
By Evan ... |
Canada Politics Canada defection boosts coalition
BBC Tuesday, 17 May, 2005
A top member of Canada's opposition has defected to Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liber ... |
Fanning the flames in Uzbekistan Karimov cracks down
May 16th 2005
From The Economist Global Agenda
Soldiers in Uzbekistan are reported to have fired on a crowd, killing perhaps h ... |
MR.OSAMA, ARE YOU OK?
by B.RamanDear Mr. bin Laden,Are you OK?2. One has not heard from you since October 29, 2004, when you had sent a recorded message through the ... |
AFGHAN VIOLENCE! HIZBUT TEHRIR BEHIND AFGHAN VIOLENCE?
by B.Raman
“This is the biggest protest campaign in Afghanistan since the ouster of the Taliban regime. This ... |
Al-Qaeda's Canadian recruits Al-Qaeda's Canadian recruits 'highly prized': report
Last Updated Sun, 15 May 2005 16:09:01 EDT
OTTAWA - The majority of al-Qaeda recruits ... |
Pakistan police brutality claim Pakistani rights activists have accused the police of brutality after they used force to break up a rally in support of a mixed sex road race in ... |
Koran desecration report 'wrong' US magazine Newsweek has said it was wrong to report that a copy of the Koran was flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
It said a U ... |
Balochistan Bugti for joint front to get rights - sees bleak future of Balochistan
M Niamat Betini
QUETTA: Chief of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Nawab Akbar ... |
Pakhtun Woman - Pilot A Dream Coming True----A Pakhtun Woman Fighter Pilot in the Making.May 13, 2005
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Academy has been all-male for more than ... |
Crisis in Baluchistan Deepening crisis in Baluchistan province
eyewitness report from the Pakisani province of Baluchistan
Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan (cwi ... |
Brave initiative -Amnesty to Taliban Brave initiative
The Frontier Post, May 11, 2005
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk
The Afghan reconciliation commission’s offer of amnesty to ousted ... |
Celebrating an Old Language REVIEWS: Celebrating an old language
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/books/books14.htm
By Sher Alam ShinwariPushto Adabi Chaman Tal, a Pushto literary or ... |
Ghani Khan - life & poetry
PTV Peshawar show on Ghani Khan Baba life & poetryPESHAWAR: PTV, Peshawar recorded a grand show highlighting the life and art of the legen ... |
Al-Libbi - The Libyan Islamist How al-Libbi was nabbed
By Rahimullah Yusufzai http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/index.html
Friday May 06, 2005--
PESHAWAR: Abu Faraj al-Libbi's luck ... |
Afghan girls kick down old barriers Afghan girls kick down old barriers
By Ben Arnoldy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0504/p01s03-wosc.h ... |
Generals Vs. Generals Generals Vs. Generals
By Shaheen Sehbai (Mr. Shaeen was the editor of Jang News paper)
WASHINGTON, April 29: General Pervez Musharraf cannot, and do ... | |