Tag Archives: NWFP

Islamabad, July 11 (ANI): The head of Pakistan’s radical Lal Masjid, Abdul Aziz, has threatened the Pakistan Government of launching a ‘bloody revolution’, if the Zardari-led coalition fails to enforce an Islamic system in the country through parliament. Addressing the ... Read More »

Islamabad, July, 7 (ANI):  Pakistan Prime Minister’s advisor on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik has said that the major Taliban leadership has been wiped out from Swat. Talking to media persons here, Malik claimed that the military offensive being carried out ... Read More »

Islamabad, July 6 (ANI): The Pakistani police force is underpaid, poorly trained and ill-equipped to handle the Taliban onslaught, as the army drives them from their strongholds in Swat and surrounding areas. Experts say the Taliban has now stepped up ... Read More »

New York, July 2 (ANI): The goodwill the United States was hoping to garner from the thousands of displaced people in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, in return for aid being doled out by it, is being ... Read More »

Islamabad, June 8 (ANI): A multi-billion rupee scandal during General Pervez Musharraf’s regime has been unearthed in Pakistan. According to The News, a billion-rupee contract was given to an influential contactor on fake bank guarantees for setting up of water ... Read More »

Peshawar, June 8 (ANI): Furious over the death of TNSM leaders, Maulana Mohammad Alam and Amir Izzat Khan, the Taliban has blamed the NWFP government and the Pakistan Army for the killings. The Taliban rejected the government’s version that the ... Read More »

Peshawar, Jun.7 (ANI):  TheTehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had developed differences over the issue of implementing Sharia in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), provincial Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain has said. Hussain claimed the TNSM’s leadership was receiving ... Read More »

Peshawar, June 6 (ANI): The Pakistan government is concerned about the emergence of a number of signboards with maps of “Greater Pakhtunistan” have reappearing at various places of Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts of the North West Frontier Province. Pakistan’s ... Read More »

Lahore, May 28 (ANI):  Pakistan has claimed that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a military operation being carried out in the SwatValley. Announcing a whopping four million rupees bounty on Fazlullah, the North West Frontier Province ... Read More »

Mardan (Pakistan), May 25 (ANI): The Pakistan Government appears to be hard pressed in trying to contain the refugee crisis emanating from the military offensive against the Taliban and other extremist groups in the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). ... Read More »

Islamabad, may 25 (ANI): India has had a role to play in fermenting unrest in the Malakand agency of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), claimed Markazi Jamiat Ehle Hadith leader Sajid Mir. He accused authorities in Islamabad of neither ... Read More »

Islamabad, May 22 (ANI): The Taliban has agreed to move out of the Asbanr and Gulabad areas of the Lower Dir region of  the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) within the next two days. Sources said the Taliban has assured ... Read More »

Islamabad, May 21 (ANI):  The Pakistan Army is still trying to assert its full control in the NWFP’s Buner District. The security forces have failed to completely flush out the Taliban from the region. According to a BBC report, fighting ... Read More »

Islamabad, May 21 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has reiterated his pledge to defeat the Taliban, saying victory against the extremists is the only option available in the in Swat and Malakand regions of the North West Frontier Province ... Read More »

Nowshehra, May 18 (ANI): NWFP Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain has said that internally displaced persons will soon hear a good news, claiming that most of the areas in Buner and Dir have been cleared of militants. Speaking to the IDPs ... Read More »