NOWSHERA, Dec 24: The bailiff of the district and sessions judge on Friday recovered a man and his son who were chained and tortured in a private cell in the Pashtun Garhi area of Nowshera district on Friday. The victims namely Waris and his son Mir Alam were produced in the court in chains. The cops had allegedly picked them up from the Azakhel Police Station when an influential man identified as Usman implicated More →

NOWSHERA, Dec24: A local court has issued directives to the inspector general of police, capital city police officer and senior superintendent of police (investigation) to register a first information report (FIR) against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Social Welfare Sitara Ayaz and two police officers for having committed a cognisable offence of charging a female officer of the department on the basis of a More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 24: Nowshera upset Charsadda by 3-2 in the thrilling final of the Peshawar Inter-District Football Championshipplayed under the aegis of Khyber Pakthunkhwa Sports Board here at Sumbal Khan Football Stadium, Qayyum Sports by 3-Complex on Thursday. Secretary Khyber Pakthunkhwa Olympic Association Zulfiqar Butt was the chief guest on this occasion. Director Sports Khyber More →

PESHAWAR, Dec 21: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Wednesday formally launched the second phase of the Watan Cards’ distribution to the last year’s flashflood victims from Peshawar district. The launching ceremony was held at the Chief Minister’s House here, where members of the flood-hit families, provincial agriculture minister Arbab Ayub Jan, MPAs Alamgir Khalil and Aurangzeb More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 23: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar has said that the lawyers’ community deserved to feel proud for having decisive role in restoration of constitution and rule of law as well as ensuring the supremacy of parliament in the country. Addressing as a chief guest at the oath administering ceremony of the newly elected office bearers of the District Bar Association, Nowshera here on Tuesday, More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 23: A man was burnt to death and another suffered serious burn injuries when a gas cylinder of a pick-up van burst at a filling station in Pabbi area on Friday. The Pabbi police station said the victim, Asfandyar Bacha, son of Ahmad Said, resident of Bakhshali, Mardan, was working as salesman in the CNG filling station. Asfandyar received critical burnt injuries and died on the spot. More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 14: Three persons were killed in separate incidents in the district on Tuesday. The sources said that Sabir along with his friend Baz Muhammad Khan was on his way to Amangarh when the accused Nasir exchanged harsh words with them over a property dispute and opened fire on them. As a result, Baz Muhammad Khan was killed on the spot.  More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 14: Hamza bin Asif won the Under-14 title of the National Junior Tennis Championship after beating his 12-year-old younger brother Talha bin Asif 2-0 in the final at Islamabad Club here on Tuesday. The score-line was 6-2, 7-5. The winner is a student of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) College Risalpur and has also been selected to the represent Pakistan in the ATF Junior Tennis Championship to be held in More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 14: National Bank of Pakistan has rehabilitated 10 flood damaged public sector schools and provided them furniture, equipment and installed tube-wells for drinking water in the schools in district Nowshera. Regional Chief NBP, Altas Khan along with Executive Education Officer, Hasnat Gul paid a visit to all the rehabilitated schools and met the children in different area of District Nowshera.  More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 12: The Risalpur Export Processing Zone, set up 12 years ago, has been a failure. It has less than half a dozen functioning industrial units. Spread over 200 acres, the REPZ has some 198 unutilised plots still available for setting up export-oriented industrial units and trade warehouses. It was set up in 1997-98 on demand of KP’s industrialists and traders. However, the Export Processing Zones Authority has not lost all hopes. More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 12: Khyber Pakhtun-khwa Excise and Taxation Minister and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Nowshera chapter president, Laiqat Shabab, said on Sunday that changing loyalties was an old habit of Irrigation Minister Pervez Khattak. Speaking at a news conference at his residence, he said Pervez Khattak had no links with the PPP as he joined the party for his personal benefits and was now joining More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 12: A serious clash took place between supporters and opponents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Irrigation Pervez Khattak at the Central Secretariat of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) here in Islamabad on Monday. Pervez Khattak was to announce his joining of the PTI at a press conference along with Imran Khan at the Central Secretariat of the party. Reports said that supporters and opponents More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 12: Traders of Muhajar Bazaar and Main Bazaar of Akora Khattak staged protest demonstrations against the rising incidents of thefts in the markets during couple of days.According to reports on Saturday night unidentified persons broke into three shops stealing huge amount of money, mobile phones and mobile cards.Traders protesting against the incidents staged sit in at G.T. Road and block More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 12: The office-bearers of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) in all the union councils of Nowshera district including its women wing Sunday opposed the likely entry of Khyber Pakh-tunkhwa Irrigation Minister Pervez Khattak into the party fold. The office-bearers of the PTI including district organiser of women workers, Seema Aurangzeb, during a meeting in Pabbi town in Nowshera said they would question the More →

NOWSHERA, Dec 11: Peoples’ Lawyers Forum won in the in the District Bar elections on Saturday. Ijaz Muhammad Advocate was elected President, Tariq Mamood Khattak  as secretary general and Ihsan Akbar vice presiden. The vice president got 140 votes. The contest was mainly between National Law Forum and the three party coalition Peoples’ Law Forum, Insaf Law Forum and Islami Law Forum. Yasir Salim More →