News tagged with 'nwfp'. Found 25 tagged news.

Five civilians killed in Swat

Peshawar :: Pakistan | 25 days ago

Five civilians were killed and 21 injured during shelling on Kabal village of the restive Swat valley on Tuesday while insurgents blew up another Girls’ High School in Odigram near Mingora. Several mortar shells hit houses in the Kabal area when the security...

Tags: civilians, forces, shelling, swat, security, for, kill, militants, afghanistan, nwfp, taliban

NWFP Judo name squad for camp F.P. Report

Peshawar :: Pakistan | about 1 month ago

Judo Association Sheikh Masood Ahmad Sunday announced an 18-member squad for the 3rd Provincial Games commencing from Nov 9-13 here. The selection committee headed international judo referee Maqsood Ahmad (Pakistan Army), with other members comprising...

Tags: nwfp, pakistan, 3rd provincial, Mardan, provincial games

US drone 'shot down' in SWAT

Peshawar :: Pakistan | 2 months ago

Posted by alihamza

PESHAWAR: Pakistani security forces and Wazir tribesmen Tuesday shot down a CIA-operated US Predator plane near Angoor Adda, in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) but AFP reported that the plane crashed. Official and tribal sources informed this correspondent...

Tags: US, Drone, South Waziristan, Angoor Adda, FATA, Pakistan, NWFP, Pakistan Army, WANA, Miramshah, Birmal, Shakai, Mirali

39 killed in Pakistan's troubled regions

Islamabad :: Pakistan | 2 months ago

Posted by maverick

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...

Tags: Pakistan, troubled, Swat, Bajaur, Darra, Adamkhel, regions, militants, security, shelling, civilians, NWFP

Shocking Updates from FATA

Bannu :: Pakistan | 2 months ago

Posted by alihamza

Hamid Mir, a Pakistani journalist and editor, reveals shocking update from FATA. Hamid claims there is no operation against Taliban or Al Qaida but against the poor people of FATA and that the territory west of Bannu is "lost" and no longer a part of...

Tags: FATA, Hamid Mir, WANA, Balochistan, NWFP, Pakistan, NATO, Taliban, GEO, Bannu, Kohat, Asif Ali Zardari, Rehman Malik

Top ex-official claims US out to seize control of Pakistan

Rāwalpindi :: Pakistan | 2 months ago

Posted by maverick

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...

Tags: Pakistan, Orakzai, NWFP, Ali, Gen, nuclear, US, ISI, Islamabad

Give Peace a Chance

Islamabad :: Pakistan | 2 months ago

Posted by amumtaz

The health, education and employment statistics of Pakistan in general and NWFP province in particular are nothing short of a disaster. These numbers are further worsened by the influx of millions of Afghan refugees who have made the NWFP province their...

Tags: peace, pakistan, nwfp, health, education, stats

Canada-based Pakhtuns seek end to violence in Pakistan, Afghanistan

Rāwalpindi :: Pakistan | 2 months ago

Posted by maverick

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...

Tags: Pakhtuns, Pakistan, US, Canada, Afghanistan, PPF, NWFP, tribal, violence

Blast leaves Pakistani girl student, school employee injured

Rāwalpindi :: Pakistan | 2 months ago

Posted by maverick

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 students...

Tags: blast, Pakistan, NWFP, student, school, employee

Al-Qaeda Breeding Ground

Mardān :: Pakistan | 2 months ago

Posted by amumtaz

As I stepped out of my car into a vast field of old and ragged tents, just outside Mardan city, I was shocked to see thousands of displaced refugees from Bajaur and Swat vallies in the North West of Pakistan. They were literally forced out of their homes...

Tags: mardan, refugees, bajaur, plight, al-qaeda, pakistan, nwfp, disaster