Nowshera, Pakistan News

By Daud Khattak PESHAWAR: "We want to go back to our areas" was the single unanimous plea made by people displaced due to the military operation against miscreants in Bajaur Agency.

LAHORE: Ahmed Faraz, Pakistan's much loved poet, died in Islamabad on Monday night after a long struggle with a host of ailments, having taken ill in the first week of July while on a visit to the United ...

In a school compound on the outskirts of the town of Nowshera, more than 1,000 people are getting used to a new life.

A colonel and two soldiers were among five killed in a fierce encounter with a heavily-armed group of infiltrators in the Machail sector of Kupwara district in northwest Kashmir on Friday.

The International Committee of the Red Cross is launching an emergency operation to provide urgent assistance to tens of thousands of victims of armed conflict in Bajaur Agency on Pakistan's border with ...

Saturday, August 23, 2008 By Hamid Mir ISLAMABAD: In a major breakthrough, the security agencies have got a big lead in investigations into the bombings at Wah.

Saturday, August 23, 2008 By our correspondents HANGU/PESHAWAR: The security forces killed 16 militants, including two suicide bombers, and arrested another one alive in a gunbattle in the restive Doaba town of ...

Jammu, August 21: : In yet another ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops on Thursday targeted Nowshera sector in Jammu and Kashmir and fired six mortar shells.

Pakistani security officials say missiles have struck a suspected militant hideout in Pakistan's northwest, killing at least eight people, including foreign militants.

Over 250,000 Bajauris leave hearth and home Monday, August 18, 2008 Khalid Kheshgi PESHAWAR: In the biggest internal displacement of people in Pakistan's history, more than 250,000 individuals have been ...

Saturday, August 16, 2008 LAHORE: The River Indus at Kalabagh, Chashma, Guddu and Sukkur, the River Chenab at Marala and the River Ravi at Balloki were in low flood while the River Kabul at Nowshera was in ...

PESHAWAR: The residents of Peshawar and adjacent areas are having sleepless nights due to frequent power outages following the destruction of an electricity tower in Shaikh Mohammadi area.

According to the Flood-forecasting Centre, there was high flood in River Kabul at Adezai whereas at Nowshera it attained a medium flood on Monday.According to the Peshawar flood warning centre, the flood level ...

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 Schezee Zaidi Islamabad An intellectual, journalist, poet and above all a freedom fighter, Muhammad Ajmal Khan Khattak, has been conferred 'Kamal-e-Funn Award 2007' for his lifelong ...

August 6th, 2008 by Ambreen Kazmi Glancing at Dera Ismail Khan, Mardan, Kohat, Nowshera, Swat and even Peshawar one witnesses that writ of government is continuously defied by a number of non state actors and ...

Thursday, August 07, 2008 Our correspondent MARDAN: Unidentified armed men Wednesday killed a driver and injured his conductor near Takhtbhai after refusal to pay ransom.

By Daud Khattak PESHAWAR: Sarhad Development Authority will launch 13 development projects in the province under a three-year plan.

PESHAWAR: Pakistan People's Party-Sherpao Chairman Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Sunday warned that if the US and allied forces attacked the Tribal Areas, the brave Pakhtoons would defend every inch of their ...

By Manzoor Ali Shah PESHAWAR: District nazims from all the 24 districts of NWFP would meet in Nowshera district on July 31 to chalk out a strategy against provincial government's 'interference' in district ...

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 By Shakil Shaikh ISLAMABAD: The government has declared eight settled districts of the North-West Frontier Province as "high security zones" with emphasis on beefing up security in these ...