Topic: North-West Frontier Province

Shahzaib, Faisal give Sind huge lead

Shahzaib Hasan and Faisal Iqbal scored centuries to give Sind a huge lead against Baluchistan on the second day at the National Stadium in Karachi...
Pakistan's Supreme Court has issued notices to the heads of the ISI and the Military Intelligence besides other senior officials to explain the...

Six wounded in Pakistan rocket attack

At least six people were wounded but none were killed when rockets struck a meeting of tribal elders convened by a provincial governor in northwest Pakistan Tuesday, senior officials said.Senior administration official Sahabzada Anis corrected his earlier statement that one person ...
By Ian MacLeod. . OTTAWA— The federal government has blacklisted the Pakistani Taliban, initially linked to last year's alleged jihadist scheme to...

Hundreds besiege Pakistan border area for third day

Hundreds of militants on Friday again besieged a Pakistani area on the Afghan border, shortly after troops claimed to have regained control after fighting killed 34 people, police said."Militants have attacked again. There are hundreds of them. They have besieged the ...
Pakistan would be a more stable and peaceful place if its four component nations were unstitched from one another. . Since Osama bin Laden was...

Four dead as militants blow up 11 NATO tankers

Militants in northwestern Pakistan blew up at least 11 tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan Friday, killing four people, police said.The rebels struck at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province."More ...
Pakistan is in a state of permanent crisis that only seems to have intensified as the Muslim world reels with Arab uprisings against unpopular...

Zardari appoints ally to key Pakistan province

Pakistan's president on Tuesday appointed a close political ally as governor in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, dismissing the incumbent at a key juncture in the fight against the Taliban.Syed Masood Kausar, a provincial leader in the ruling Pakistan ...
Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images. American soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan's Arghandab Valley. . For some long while, what was once a merely subtle...