PESHAWAR – Two Pakistani parliamentarians were released on bail in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after four months in detention. MNAs Mohsin Dawar and Ali Wazir were set free from Haripur jail after the two lawmakers were granted bail two days earlier. The bail was granted by the ...

PESHAWAR – Independent candidates bagged six seats while the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secured five seats in the first-ever elections for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly from the merged tribal areas, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said Sunday. The Jamiat ...

CHITRAL - A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) was reported in the Golain region of Chitral District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), leaving citizens and travellers including Prime Minister Imran Khan's sister, Aleema Khan in despair. A huge area was inundated in floodwaters after it dealt a blow to ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday said that the government was alive to the difficulties being faced by the people in merged tribal areas (erstwhile FATA) and would fulfill all the commitments made with them. In a meeting with a delegation of senators and members of the National Assembly ...

PESHAWAR - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) postponed polls in the merged tribal districts for 18 days, on Wednesday. ECP spokesperson Altaf Khan said the polls watchdog postponed the election on 16 seats of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in tribal districts till July 20 after a request ...

PESHAWAR - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has requested the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to postpone the first-ever provincial assembly elections to be held in the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) for 20 days. The ECP had issued a ...

PESHAWAR - Prime Minister Imran Khan is visiting Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's capital city, Peshawar on Saturday. Provincial Governor Shah Farman and Chief Minister Mehmood Khan will hold meetings with the Prime Minister and discuss the overall situation of the province besides the performance of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Imran Khan turned up in the National Assembly on Monday ahead of voting on the 26th Constitutional Amendment Bill, seeking an increase in the number of seats for the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) in the National Assembly and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday launched a landmark initiative of providing a health insurance cards to the deserving families of the federal capital and whole of erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas. “No country can progress until it spends for the uplift of education and ...

PESHAWAR – Police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have found the tortured body of a minor girl who had gone missing a day earlier. A post-mortem examination performed on the body of nine-year-old Minahil suggested she was raped before being murdered, District Police Officer Nowshera Mansoor Amam told ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday informed his cabinet members, party loyalists, rivals and the people of Pakistan about the successes achieved in the first 100 days of his government. As November 29 marks the 100th day for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led government, the premier ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Mahmood Khan has approved setting up three new shelter homes in Peshawar, directing authorities to collect data of homeless people. Chairing a meeting at CM house on Saturday, he directed authorities to make arrangements for establishing shelter homes ...

PESHAWAR - At least seventeen students were left injured after the police baton-charged a group of students staging a protest against a fee hike by the Peshawar University on Thursday. The students were demonstrating against the fee swell for M.Phil and PhD, saying the increase was not at all ...

PESHAWAR - Members of the cabinet of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government took the oath of their office on Wednesday. Acting governor Mushtaq Ghani administered the oath to the ministers at a graceful but simple ceremony at the Governor's House. Chief Minister Mehmood Khan also attended the event. The KP ...

ISLAMABAD - Three senators belonging to the war-torn Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) region joined the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Saturday. The FATA Senators joined the newly installed government at a time when presidential elections are scheduled to held on September 4. Senator ...

PESHAWAR - The governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has tendered resignation from the post on Friday. Jhagra has forwarded his resignation to president Mamnon Hussain and after administering oath to Chief Minister Mehmood Khan, he announced relinquishing the post. Jhagra's ...