http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us A senior reporter of a mainstream English daily of Pakistan -- The News, Javed Afridi escaped from captivity of the kidnappers Saturday and reached home safe and sound. Armed men had kidnapped him near Zangli checkpoint on Kohat Road when... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1564604 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:20:36 -0700 At least 30 persons were killed and more than 53 others injured in a suicide blast at the residence of a member of Pakistan’s National Assembly in Bhakkar city of the Punjab province on Monday. MNA Rasheed Akbar Nawani, at... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1465435 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:06:48 -0700 The Commonwealth countries of Asia should reduce the expenditure on defence and armaments and use the resources thus saved for the uplift of the poor who are the worst affected by the rise in prices of food and energy, the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1410539 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:54:35 -0700 Two US jetfighters again intruded into Pakistani airspace over South Waziristan tribal district causing panic among dwellers of the region, whereas Pakistani security forces killed another 15 militants in the restive Bajaur Agency and a religious outfit captured a would-be... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1397790 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:47:29 -0700 A tribal squad comprising more than 3,000 armed volunteers on Thursday chased the militants belonging to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) out of Jamrud subdivision of Khyber Agency and later set their three bases on fire. The volunteers belonging to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1380715 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:18:02 -0700 Violence in Pakistan’s restive Bajaur tribal region on Wednesday claimed 32 lives, including seven troops, 25 suspected militants and two anti-militancy tribal volunteers, while several others including two senior militant commanders were killed as jetfighters and gunship helicopters... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1373456 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:38:55 -0700 People in Pakistan’s cultural capital Lahore have started to avoid eating Iftar at hotels and restaurants, while most organisations have also cancelled their Iftar parties after the shock bombing of an upscale hotel in Islamabad over the weekend. The Water... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1366800 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:57:50 -0700 15 security personnel, 21 militants and three civilians among dead in different regions As many as 39 persons, including 15 security personnel, 21 militants and three civilians, were killed in four incidents in the restive tribal regions and North West... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1363570 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:51:45 -0700 Twelve security personnel were killed and several others injured in a suicide attack Saturday morning in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Reports from the troubled region said that a convoy of the army was on its way to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1349996 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:38:35 -0700 A noted Pakistani anthropologist, Samar Minallah, has launched a 17-minute documentary to highlight the miseries and agonies of the people displaced by the ongoing military operation in the troubled Bajaur Agency. The documentary, titled ‘Da Bajaur Guloona’ (Pashto translation... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1340934 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:49:37 -0700 Former North West Frontier Province Governor Lt Gen (retd) Ali Orakzai has warned that changes in Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and in the administrative control of the nuclear-related Strategic Planning Division at America’s whims will amount to a complete takeover... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1339373 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:03:20 -0700 The Punjab Mineral Department in Pakistan has ordered shut the biggest salt mine of Asia located in the centre of the Salt Range in the northeast of the country, terming it dangerous. The order was passed during a visit of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1339368 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:00:13 -0700 The Pakistan government has decided to set up two nuclear power plants worth Rs139 billion to overcome the severe power crisis the country is facing, official sources said here Thursday. President Asif Zardari will discuss the acquisition of the fuel... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1339366 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:56:37 -0700 Supporting the latest stance of Pakistan on cross-border incursions by the US-led allied forces stationed in Afghanistan, tribesmen belonging to Pakistan's Khyber tribal region have threatened to block the Peshawar-Torkham Road being used for supplies to the allied forces in... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1325949 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:16:36 -0700 A Canada-based organisation of Pakhtuns has demanded the United Nations, United States and world community to take steps for bringing peace to Afghanistan as well as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. In... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1318279 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:22:50 -0700 Outlining his vision for Pakistan, renowned educationist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy on Monday exhorted that all state institutions should work for the betterment of citizens. Delivering lecture on ‘Does Pakistan Need a New Vision’ at a function arranged by Centre for... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1318063 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:43:46 -0700 Pakistani authorities on Monday evening handed over son of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is in the US custody and facing charges of attacking her American investigators, was handed over to Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, younger sister of detained Dr Siddiqui. According... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1318037 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:41:07 -0700 Welcoming recent reports about Pakistani military leadership’s readiness to retaliate the US attacks, the tribal elders in Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency bordering Afghanistan, where Friday’s missile strike by the US drones killed over a dozen people, on Saturday threatened... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1307278 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:50:41 -0700 The police have launched an operation in a posh locality of Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan’s troubled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) bordering volatile tribal region, after over a dozen militants captured the site office of a civic department.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1307142 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:16:55 -0700 A bomb blast injured a girl student and an employee of a private school Saturday in Lakki Marwat district of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), eyewitnesses and police said. A roadside bomb went off when the school bus, carrying... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com./contributed-news/1306232 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:53:22 -0700