Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan News

A soldier gestures to people to stay away from the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan on March 29, 2013.

Six security personnel were killed and three injured Wednesday when a Pakistani army convoy was ambushed on the outskirts of Peshawar, near the troubled Darra Adamkhel region.

A senior police official says militants attacked a military convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weapons in northwest Pakistan, killing six soldiers.

A three-member delegation of Christian community led by President Bishop Bishop Samuel Azariah, Bishop of Peshawar Humphrey Sarfraz Peters, and Presbyter Nasim Fiaz called on NADRA Chairman Tariq Malik at NADRA Headquarter.

Militants torch NATO lifeline By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR - The United States is laying meticulous plans ahead of its 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, but it has clearly overlooked how its continued drones strikes on the tribal areas of neighboring Pakistan will affect the much-anticipated pullout.

Teachers and head teachers at schools in Bradford were being encouraged to form links with schools in Pakistan as part of a major global education programme at an event being held today at Green Lane Primary School.

According to an inquiry report issued following the directives of Peshawar High Court, patients were treated with infected instruments during their dialysis due to which they were stricken by hepatitis.

Strongly opposing the proposed tax on agriculture sector, the growers' body has demanded the government to review the decision and exempt agriculture sector and agri inputs from any kind of tax to extend maximum relief to farmers across the country.

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led government has presented a welfare oriented budget in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with special focus on reforms in education, health and police departments besides ending the VIP culture.

An injured man is wheeled into a Peshawar hospital on a stretcher. Inside others are treated for their wounds.

True to his promise to continue disclosing NSA secrets, Edward Snowden has now revealed to the Guardian that the agency intercepted the communications of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other world leaders in 2009.

A bomb attack killed 10 people, including a provincial lawmaker, and wounded more than 40 others at a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said.

The Peshawar High Court Peshawar has stopped the National Institute of Management Sciences functioning while endorsing the decision of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council directing that all the students of the NIMS be adjusted in the private sector medical colleges under the supervision of PM&DC within 15 days in line with all the legal ... (more)

Germany has promised to stand by the new government in Pakistan and respects the mandate of the Pakistani people Germany and Pakistan have maintained a cordial relationship since the late 1940s.

Dafdar Khan, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan since 1981, with one of his grandchildren outside his mud-brick home in the Khazana Camp in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The total outlay of the budget is Rs 334 billion, a 13.5 percent increase over the revenue receipts of the outgoing fiscal and it includes Rs 118 billion annual development programme.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas says he will resign because a top aide of his has been charged with abuse of power.

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will suggest a 15 percent raise in the salaries of government employees in the provincial budget for 2013-14, spokesman Shaukat Yousafzai said on Sunday.

People carry the flag-wrapped casket of a high-ranking government official who was killed in Saturday's bombing at the Bolan Medical complex in Quetta, Pakistan, Sunday, June 16, 2013.

A new analysis of Internet search terms published by Mother Jones found an irony in the majority Muslim country of because while the Asian nation is homophobic, it topped searches for gay terms in the Web such as shemale sex, teen anal sex and manf***king man.