BANNU / PESHAWAR: About 2,500 families displaced from South Waziristan almost five years ago will return to their homes in the first phase of the repatriation process starting from March 16 (tomorrow). Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan announced the process of phased repatriation on Monday at a media briefing at the Governor House along with Peshawar Corps Commander Lieutenant General Hidayatur Rehman. Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been living in makeshift camps…
Posts published in March 2015
Karachi- The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) today postponed the hearing of the Karachi airport attack case and reissued the arrest warrants of at least nine criminals, including Mullah Fazlullah and Shahidullah Shahid. According to the details, at least three criminals, Sarmad Siddique, Nadeem and Asif Zaheer were arrested earlier. The ATC has forwarded the cases against these criminals regarding possession of illegal weapons to the Sessions Court. They are also accused of having assisted the militants…
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, March 15th, 2015. GILGIT: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday challenged the appointments of the Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) governor, interim chief minister and chief election commissioner in the apex court, terming them illegal. A petition was filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan by Amna Ansari and Mirza Hussain against Governor Birjis Tahir, Interim Chief Minister Sher Jahan Mir and Chief Election Commissioner Syed Tahir Ali Shah. Ansari and Hussain…
By Shabbir Mir in Express Tribune, Mar 15, 2015 GILGIT-BALTISTAN: At least five Rangers officials were injured on Sunday when suspected militants attacked a security check post near Diamer-Bhasha Dam area in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). Home Secretary G-B Sibtain Ahmed said the assailants carried out the attack at 12:55am, taking benefit of darkness. “As they opened fire on the officials, the paramilitary force retaliated,” he added. Ahmed said the injured were shifted to a nearby hospital…
TIMERGARA: A senior military official Friday said that the network of militants in Lower Dir district has been dismantled and several terrorists including those involved in the killing of the brother of a provincial lawmaker had been arrested. Talking to journalists, Commandant Dir Scouts Colonel Nasr Umar Hayat Lalika said the security forces had arrested almost all the wanted men involved in terrorist activities in Lower Dir.Colonel Lalika said the militants involved in the attack…
48 militants killed in air strikes in Tirah Valley: by Munir Khan Afridi in The News, March 14, 2015
BARA: Forty-eight militants were killed and several others sustained injuries when Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter aircraft blitzed their hideouts in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Friday, official sources said. The sources said the fighter aircraft targeted the hideouts of proscribed militant organisations, Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) led by Mangal Bagh and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in Kukikhel and other areas ofwere killed and several others were injured in the attack. It added that several hideouts…
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, March 13th, 2015. GILGIT: At least 105 development projects—payments of which were made in advance during the previous regional government’s tenure—are incomplete, said Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Governor Barjees Tahir on Thursday. Addressing a news conference at his office in Gilgit, the governor said he was really perturbed about this revelation. “The projects remain incomplete even though payments have been made in advance; this is tantamount to corruption,” said Tahir…
By Jamil Nagri in Mar 13, 2015 GILGIT: The authorities have decided to shift 20 high profile prisoners from Gilgit jail to different prisons in Punjab in the wake of the recent jailbreak incident in Gilgit-Baltistan. Sources said that three prisoners involved in Nanga Parbat massacre were also among the 20 inmates, who would be shifted to Punjab jails. Two suspects charged with Nanga Parbat base camp attack escaped from the jail on March 1…
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Assembly Deputy Speaker Shaheen Kousar Dar led a walk on Monday to rally for women`s rights. The walk was organised by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (UN Women) AJK chapter, as part of a series of activities which included a seminar and a talk to highlight the importance of women`s rights. In the rally, participants carried banners and placards with slogans calling for women`s…
MUZAFFARABAD: Deputy Speaker of Sindh Assembly Dr Shela Raza on Monday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is a group of political orphans. “PTI has no ideology and manifesto to serve the people of Pakistan,” she said at a press conference. Raza, flanked by Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Shaheen Kausar Dar, said that Imran’s party is a Jumma Bazaar (Friday market) of four former foreign ministers and Jahangir Tareen who do…
ISLAMABAD: The adviser to prime minister on foreign affairs and national security, Sartaj Aziz, admitted on Friday there was no breakthrough in the recently held talks between India and Pakistan on foreign secretary level, however, he said these talks have opened path for future negotiations. “There was no date fixed for the next round of talks,” Sartaj Aziz told media after attending book launching ceremony of General (retd) Abdul Majeed in Islamabad. Responding to a…