Sikh rights activist shot dead on May 30, 2018Sardar Charan Jeet Singh, a renowned Sikh community leader and rights activist, was gunned down in the precinct of Inqilab Police Station, Peshawar on Tuesday. According to police, the 52-year-old peace activist was killed inside his shop in Scheme Chowk area. “The lone attacker managed to escape the scene after killing Charan Jeet Singh inside […]
‘Making Peshawar beautiful’ — Khattak inaugurates the country’s largest zoo on February 13, 2018PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s first and Pakistan’s largest zoo, spanning on 29 acres of land was inaugurated by KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak in Peshawar on Monday. Pervez Khattak said on the occasion that the project was a priority of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)-led provincial government. “I had said in my first speech after taking charge […]
15-year-old cousin arrested for murder of Mardan minor girl on February 8, 2018PESHAWAR: A fifteen-year old suspect arrested in connection with the murder of Asma in Mardan Wednesday confessed to killing the four-year old minor girl due to fear of being caught during an attempted sexual assault on January 13. The accused, Muhammad Nabi, was arrested after a DNA sample of his blood matched the one found […]
Renowned singer and guitarist Timothy Todd Shea rocks Peshawar on January 2, 2018PESHAWAR: Famous American singer and guitarist Timothy Todd Shea entertained a jam-packed Nishtar Hall during a musical concert organised by the Directorate of Youth Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on New Year’s Eve. The winners of the National Youth Carnival singing competitors and Pashto singer and Rabab master Shahid Malang also enthralled the spectators with their lively performance. […]
Sports event organised for physically impaired people on December 7, 2017PESHAWAR: More than 400 sports persons and children with disabilities got together at the Hayatabad Sports Complex for a sports meet organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Friends of Paraplegics, Peshawar Zalmi Foundation and other organisations on Wednesday. The mega event, dubbed as Ability Sports Festival was organised in connection with […]
‘133,000 HIV positive patients in Pakistan’ on December 6, 2017PESHAWAR: The majority of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected persons in Pakistan are unaware of their infection and are not getting any treatment or precautionary measures that could avoid the spread of the disease, speakers at an event in connection with the World Aids Day noted here in Peshawar on Tuesday. An estimated 133,000 persons […]
Several suspects held after 9 killed in Peshawar attack on December 3, 2017PESHAWAR: At least nine suspects were arrested during a pre-dawn search operation carried out by law-enforcement agencies on the outskirts of Peshawar on Saturday as police launched an investigation into yesterday’s terror attack on the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI). Three terrorists dressed in burqas stormed the ATI hostel situated near Peshawar’s University Road, killing nine […]
Peshawar attack: Eleven martyred, over 30 injured on December 1, 2017LAHORE: Eleven people were martyred and more than 30 injured after four terrorists broke into the hostel of the Agricultural Directorate in Peshawar on Friday morning. Seven students, four security officials, two watchmen and a journalist were among the injured, the police said. A police official said the attackers’ first target was the security guard of […]
Taliban warn Afghanistan will become ‘graveyard’ for America on August 23, 2017PESHAWAR: Afghanistan Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in his response to US President Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday said they will make Afghanistan a 21st century graveyard for the US Empire. A statement attributed to Mujahid read that at last the US president announced his policy in which he has labelled Afghanistan a threat to the […]
Event held to celebrate Afghan Independence Day on August 18, 2017PESHAWAR: The Consulate General of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Peshawar organized a function to celebrate its 98th Independence Day on Thursday. Each year, Afghanistan celebrates August 19 as its independence day to commemorate the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 at the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War. The treaty granted a complete neutral relationship between […]