By Muhammad Riaz Mayar in The News, Dec 26, 2023MARDAN: Tough contests are expected in Mardan district among Awami National Party (ANP), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F, Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, and JI, in 3 national and 8 provincial constituencies. The total registered voters in Mardan district are 1,538,078, including 696,382 females and 841,696 males. The election commissioner has designated 1,055 polling stations, comprising 353 male, 319 female, and 383 combined. For the…
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Report in Dawn, Dec 3rd, 2023PESHAWAR: The security forces arrested a key militant commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan during an operation carried out in Mardan district on Saturday, official sources said. They said that during interrogation, the banned outfit’s member revealed about as huge cache of arms kept in the Khyber tribal district. They added that later the weapons were recovered from area. “The banned outfit’s militants had planned to carry out terror activities…
report in Dawn, October 1st, 2023PESHAWAR: A Pakistan Army soldier embraced martyrdom in Parachinar while an alleged militant commander was gunned down in Mardan in two separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the small hours of Friday. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said an encounter took place between security forces and alleged militants in Parachinar, Kurram, in which Lance Naik Ghairat Khan, 33, embraced martyrdom. In a separate incident, an alleged militant…
Report in Dawn, July 10th, 2023MARDAN: Sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Katlang tehsil, Farooq Zaman Khan sustained serious bullet injuries when unknown miscreants opened indiscriminate fire on his car near Ghundo police post here on Saturday night. An FIR registered by the officials of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) quoted constable, Shayan Hasan, the gunman of the injured SDPO, as saying that they were on their way to Baizai police station when unidentified terrorists opened fire on their…