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• Businessman, politician, patron of arts

  Kamran Khan was born in the picturesque valley of Swat in the 1930s when there was peace and tranquility there mainly because of good governance.   His father, late Shamshi Khan popularly known as Haji Shamshi Seth was a trusted businessman so ...

• Five gunned down in Mardan

  MARDAN: Five people were killed and a pedestrian was injured when unidentified assailants opened indiscriminate fire on them on Sunday. According to details, Abu Zar and his friends were on their way in a car when they were ambushed in Garyala area in ...

• Rs2m relief goods distributed

  SWABI: The Poverty Eradication Initiative (PEI), a non-profit social welfare organisation, distributed non-food items worth more than Rs2 million among 543 underprivileged families in Swabi.   The relief items including sweaters, gloves, woolle...

• Free books being provided to 1,400 Swabi schools

  SWABI, March 21: More than 1,400 government schools in the district have started receiving free books for distribution among deserving students for the upcoming academic year, commencing from April 1. The district has about 1,200 primary schools, 80 m...

• Recovery of 4 bodies in Mardan: PHC CJ takes notice

  PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan on Wednesday took notice of the recovery of four bodies in Mardan district and directed the police to present post-mortem and complete investigation report about the slain persons....

• Senator Shahi Syed

  By Kahar ZalmayKarachi was once a city of dreams where everybody irrespective of race, colour and creed had the opportunity for prosperity and success and an upward social mobility through perseverance and hard work. Whoever you were and wherever you c...

• KP chief minister is worthy but his worth is less than his wife

  March 21: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti claims to have little over Rs300,000 cash but insists his wife owns a considerably large property and business ventures, including shares in a Dubai-based transport company. As shown...

• Growers demand hike in tobacco price

  SWABI: The disappointed tobacco growers have warned of staging protest at the offices of the Pakistan Tobacco Board (PTB) in Peshawar if the production cost of tobacco was not increased and changes were not made in the existing PTB.   Talking t...

• 4 bodies recovered in Mardan

  MARDAN: Locals on Tuesday recovered four unidentified bodies from the Ibrahim Khan village. According to details, the four bodies were lying dumped in the area without bearing any torture or bullet wounds. The police reached the spot upon information b...

• Wajid Ali asks Pakhtuns to end their differences

  F.P. Report MARDAN: Provincial Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for Forest Affairs, Wajid Ali Khan has asked Pakhtuns to forget their differences and get united under the Umbrella of Awami National Party so that to bring out Pakhtun Nation from the current...

• Four bodies found in Mardan

  By our correspondent MARDAN: The bodies of four persons were found in a field in Ibrahim Khan Killay in the limits of Saddar Police Station on Tuesday, sources said. The sources said that unidentified persons had killed these persons and dumped the...

• Six teachers, clerk suspended for negligence

  TAKHTBHAI: The Education Department authorities on Monday placed six teachers and a clerk under suspension for their negligence in anti-polio campaign, official sources said.The sources said the anti-polio drive was launched last week in Takhtbhai t...

• he Lady Health Workers (LHWs) on Monday staged protest here as well as in other cities of the province to ask the authorities for regularisation of their services and payment of salaries.

  MARDAN: Scores of Lady Health Visitors (LHVs), LHWs and Lady Health Supervisors (LHSs) on Monday staged protest outside the Mardan Press Club here Monday. The protesters were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of their dem...

• Blast damages school in Swabi

  SWABI: The building of the Government High School Kaddi was partially damaged when explosives, planted by unknown miscreants, went off in the wee hours of Friday, police informed.The miscreants had planted explosives inside the building of the school ...

• Safety of schools: Swabi admin introduces monitoring mechanism

  SWABI, March 15: The district administration has put in place a monitoring mechanism to ensure protection of educational institutions and effectively check militant attacks on schools and colleges here, sources told Dawn on Thursday. They said that...

• Cops awarded for gallantry

  SWABI: Police officials belonging to different police stations were awarded cash prizes and certificates on Thursday for their extraordinary performance in tackling criminals.In this connection, a ceremony was held at the office of the district police...

• Farmers warn of more protests in Islamabad

  MARDAN - The tobacco farmers and tobacco dealers have warned to hold more protests and hunger strike camps in front of the Parliament House if the government does not withdraw the extra tax on tobacco crop in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. While talking to The...

• Protesters rally against delay in VC’s recovery

  MARDAN, March 14: Hundreds of people on Wednesday agitated against the government’s failure to recover kidnapped Vice Chancellor of Islamia College University, Peshawar, Professor Dr Ajmal Khan despite passage of one and a half years. Protesters ...

• Education, agriculture, health sectors: speakers seek additional funds

  Participants at a pre-budget seminar have stressed the need for additional allocation of funds for education, agriculture, health sectors and economic development in the upcoming fiscal budget for 2012-13. The consultative pre-budget seminar on "Citi...

• Man shot dead in Mardan

  MARDAN, March 6: A man was killed while his brother received critical bullet injuries when their rivals opened fire over them on Mardan-Nowshera road on Tuesday, locals and police said. The officials of city police station quoted the injured person Za...