Christmas celebrations continue amid tight security in Peshawar on December 27, 2019As Dilawar Samar enters All Saints Church in the city as part of Christmas celebrations, he remembers and prays for his daughter who had become a victim of the 2013 suicide attacks. “I can’t forget the day I was praying with Maira, 6-year-old then, at the church when the suicide bombers hit the venue,” he […]
Over 100 arrested as police flex muscles to nab land grabbers on December 24, 2019In a campaign against land mafia, the Capital City Police have arrested more than 100 people associated with different gangs in the provincial capital, a senior officer said. Speaking to Daily Times on Monday, Capital City Police Officer Muhammad Ali Gandapur said that after assuming charge in Peshawar, they accelerated the campaign against the land […]
Police recover 21 stolen cars, arrest four criminals in Mardan on December 21, 2019In a major operation, the police in Mardan district claimed to have recovered 21 stolen cars and also arrested four members of a provincial gang of car lifters. District Police Officer (DPO) Mohammad Sajjad Khan told the media at Mardan Police Lines that they had formed a team comprising Anti-Car Lifting Cell in-charge Qadar Khan, […]
Polio team escapes suicide attack in Lakki Marwat on December 20, 2019A polio vaccination team narrowly escaped a suicide attack, as the bomber exploded himself in Lakki Marwat district on Thursday, police said. The health workers were vaccinating children in Hathi Khan village. The area was cordoned off by security forces and Lakki Marwat police, who launched a search operation for the arrest of other suspects […]
Man arrested for involvement in recent PHC terrorist attack on December 19, 2019The police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested an alleged Afghan terrorist for his involvement in the December 16 bomb attack close to the Peshawar High Court. The arrestee, Ikram Ullah, an Afghan national, had crossed the border via Chaman on December 12, they claimed. In this connection, a press conference was addressed by Deputy […]
Reliving trauma: another anniversary of APS attack on December 16, 2019Falak Naz has run short of words to reply to comments on the Facebook posts regarding her sons who lost their lives in the 2014 attack on Army Public School in the provincial capital Peshawar. Falak Naz had three daughters and two sons, but now she does not have any son, as both of them […]
Rough end to gentle beings on May 14, 2019Inside a small home in a village of mountainous Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Akhtar Nisa helped her mother in domestic chores. Each time her husband left for his business in Peshawar, round 334 kilometres away from Chitral, he used to drop his wife at her parents’ home largely because his absence led to intense […]