PESHAWAR: The United Rural Development organization (URDO), a Peshawar-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working for the betterment of internally displaced people of FATA, has conducted a media-training programme for the uprooted families aimed to provide them access to project their issues in media. The project was focused on improving the capacity building of the displaced male […]
PESHAWAR: A girl’s primary school was blown up by unidentified men in Badabair, a suburban area of the provincial capital, police said on Saturday. According to the details, miscreants planted explosives near the main gate of the school which is situated in Mashoo Khel Village and detonated it with a remote control. Two rooms of […]
Women Business Development Centre (WBDC) Peshawar has formed Youth Entrepreneurship Development Forum for the young potential female entrepreneurs of educational institutes. In order to familiarise them towards the concept of entrepreneurship, other than campuses WBDC, Peshawar had also started holding orientation seminars in girl’s hostels of University of Peshawar. One of the foremost objectives behind […]
PESHAWAR: The Amnesty International has called on Pakistani authorities to bring to justice those responsible for unlawful killings in tribal areas through fair trial. In a statement issued here, Deputy Asia-Pacific Director of Amnesty International Isabelle Arradon, said: “Our research indicates that bodies of the people, who have been arrested by the armed forces, are […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has issued order to protect 44 out of 91 archaeological sites that were handed over to the province under the 18th Amendment. Archaeology and Museums Director Prof Shah Nazar Khan said that the protection order was issued under the Protection Order and Antiquity Act 1997 about the sites that were […]
PESHAWAR: Journalists in the provincial metropolis on Friday staged protest to condemn the killing of media men in the deadly blasts in Quetta. The protest was jointly arranged by Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) and Peshawar Press Club (PPC) on the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. Three journalists working for Samaa television including […]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information and Public Relations, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, has said the incumbent provincial government believes in free and strong media and considers it as an important part of a democratic dispensation. He said the role of media in the war against terror has been tremendous. He expressed these views while addressing […]
By Umer Farooq PESHAWAR: DNA tests carried out on the orders of a family court confirmed that eloped Afghan woman Maryam is the mother of four-year-old Saba and three-year-old Husna, who she earlier said were her nieces. Afghan couple Haiwad, 23, and Maryam, 22, eloped to Pakistan and got married in May, 2012 in Abbottabad. […]
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