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Chief Minister, Ameer Haidar Khan Hoti (R) comforts a relative of a policeman who was killed in a bomb blast in Peshawar. –AFP Photo/A. On Thursday, 22 people were killed in two attacks in the city, including a suicide attack that was apparently aimed...
Tags: Peshawar, judicial complex, Pakistan, North-West Frontier Province, Lady Reading Hospital, Hoti Pakistan, Waziristan, Peshawar District, Durand line, Kashmir earthquake, War Conflict, Multan, Punjab, Al-Fatiha, Buner, Bar, Qur'an
Pakistani tribesmen form their own Lashkar's to defeat the Taliban Lashkar is an armed military camp! I am impressed, I had to look it up so I could speak authoritatively on what tribe the Lashkar was and where they were from....
Tags: Pakistan, Pakistani Lashkar, armed militias, Bajaur, Dir, Buner, Swat valley, North-West Frontier province
Since returning from Pakistan in mid-April, I've been trying to keep up with, and spread the news about, the appalling situation of the nearly three million people who have been displaced from their homes in northwest Pakistan by fighting between the...
Tags: Pakistan, Taliban, Pakistan army, drone attacks, refugees, IDPs, internally displaced persons, NWFP, North West Frontier Province, Swat, Mardan, Buner
The Malakand affectees at Larma relief camp in Peshawar began to return to their native areas after a gap of one day, Geo News reported Friday. At least 80 families will be sent today to Buner, Lower Dir and Swat from Larma relief camp. The affected families...
Tags: Buner
Pakistan has begun a drive to recruit 25,000 retired soldiers for an elite police force in the country's troubled northwest ahead of an expected repatriation of more than a million internal refugees in coming weeks, reports the Weekend Australian. The...
Tags: Pakistan, Taliban, Swat Valley, Buner
The repatriation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) is picking up momentum with each passing day as 1476 families returned to Swat and Buner districts on Wednesday under government's arrangements from 16 relief camps setup in four plain districts...
Tags: Swat, buner districts, internally displaced, Buner
Despite repeated announcements by the government, asking the displaced public sector employees from the Buner district to return to their hometowns and resume duty, majority of them are still reluctant to return. Sunday that all government employees should...
Tags: Buner, buner district, resume duty, drinking water, Tehsil Topi
The meeting was attended by executive committee members including Shaukat Ali, Malik Iftikhar Ahmad Awan, Arshad Siddique, Ahmad Khan and others. The meeting also constituted a committee for utilising the relief fund set up for IDPs. The meeting discussed...
Tags: Buner, displaced persons, interior minister
In letters to various Taliban commanders in Lower Dir, Swat and Buner, Mehsud said the bombings in the villages would help conduct suicide missions in cities later. He said the army had reached every nook and corner of Swat, therefore, the Taliban must...
The Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT) Pakistan has announced a relief package of Rs 100 million for the affectees of Buner, Swat & Lowar Dir, Chairman UWT Maulana Muhammad Idrees has said. Talking to reporters the Chairman said that all kind of facilities, like...
Tags: displaced persons, internally displaced, Buner, relief package, Mardan, provincial minister