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Hello Jammu News at 5:57:00 PM 0


Peshawar, Jan 16 :  Security forces in Pakistan have gunned down four militants, including a top Taliban commander who masterminded the last year's powerful bomb blast in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in which at least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed.

Those killed in the exchange of fire include Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Islam and Mohibullah who were involved in various terror activities, officials said.

A huge cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered from their possession.

Intelligence agencies raided a house near Qazi pump area where the militants were believed to be hiding. The owner of the house was also killed in the firing between the militants and security forces.

In November, 31 people including three Sikhs were killed and over 40 others injured in the bomb blast at the Friday Market (Juma Bazar) near an imambargah, a Shia religious place, in Orakzai tribal district's Kalaya area, bordering Afghanistan.

Prime Minister Imran Khan had strongly condemned the terrorist attack.

Orakzai, a terror hotbed, is one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal regions of Pakistan which has a porus border with Afghanistan.                                                 PTI
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Peshawar, Oct 13 (PTI) A historic building close to the ancestral home of Bollywood legend Raj Kapoor in Pakistan's Peshawar city was razed to the ground to construct a commercial plaza, triggering a dispute between two government departments.

The archaeology department has lodged a police complaint against the owner of the building and the deputy director of the Evacuee Trust Property, which issued No Objection Certificate (NOC) for demolishing the structure. 

The police is yet to file any FIR in the case.

The building, constructed between 1830-60, had intricate wooden architecture. It was the glory of Peshawar city and the archaeology department intended to protect it under the Antiquity Act, the archeology department said in a letter to the station house office (SHO) of Khan Raziq police station.

The demolition of the building came to light after a civil society activist, Dr Ali Jan, raised the issue on social media few days ago.

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Hello Jammu News at 4:33:00 PM 0

Peshawar, Sep 18: A teacher and three students were electrocuted to death on Tuesday during the morning assembly at a school in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.

The accident occurred when the students were hoisting the national flag during their morning assembly when when the iron pipe came in contact with an electric wire resulting in their death, police was quoted as saying by the Geo News.

Three students and a teacher were killed as a result, while another teacher and a security guard were injured as they tried to save the children. The injured are being provided with first-aid facilities.

The students were of fourth, fifth and eighth grade respectively, police said, adding that investigations into the incident are underway.

However, the school was immediately shut down for the safety purpose for the rest of the children. (PTI)

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Peshawar, Aug 3: Six people, including five members of a family, died when the vehicle in which they were travelling fell into a deep ravine in northwest Pakistan, police said today.

The incident occurred at Thandyani, a hill station located at Abbotabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, they said.

The ill-fated family was going to Thandyani from Rawalpindi to attend a condolence meet. On the way, the driver lost control over the vehicle near Thandyani top due to poor condition of the road and it fell into the ravine, police said.

All the five members of the family and the driver lost their lives in the mishap, they said. (PTI)

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Hello Jammu News at 12:59:00 PM 0

Peshawar, Jul 11: At least 13 people, including a senior Awami National Party leader, were killed and 50 others injured in a suicide bomb attack targeting an election rally in Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city, the second terrorist attack on a poll rally ahead of the July 25 general elections.

The blast took place shortly before midnight last night when ANP leader Haroon Bilour along with other party workers gathered for a corner meeting in the congested Yakatoot area.

The blast occurred near the vehicle of Bilour, son of the late ANP leader Bashir Bilour, who was also killed in a suicide attack when a Pakistani Taliban bomber blew himself up at a party meet in Peshawar in 2012.

Thirteen people were killed and 47 others were injured in the blast, said the officials at the Lady Reading Hospital, where the victims were shifted.

City police chief Qazi Jameel said Bilour, the ANP candidate from PK 78 constituency in Peshawar city, was among those killed.

Fireworks were being burst as Bilour arrived on the stage when the suicide bomber blew himself up. Bilour suffered serious injuries and was shifted to the hospital where he succumbed to the wounds.

Bomb disposal squad chief Shafqat Malik said eight kilos of TNT explosive was used in the blast.

Rescue teams and law enforcement agencies have reached the site of the blast and investigations into the incident are underway.

This is the second terrorist attack on an election rally in Pakistan ahead of the July 25 general election.

Earlier this month, seven people including a candidate of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, a gathering of religious parties were injured in an explosion during an election rally near Takhtikhel also in the KPK province.

ANP supporters gathered outside the hospital and shouted slogans against the government for its failure to provide security to their leader.



Pakistan's Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sardar Muhammad Raza strongly condemned the attack.

"This shows the weakness of our security institutions and a conspiracy against transparent elections," he said in a statement.

The ANP is a mainstream national party headed by Asfandyar Wali Khan, the grandson of nationalist leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan commonly referred to as Bacha Khan among the Pushtuns.

The ANP, which governed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province from 2008 to 2013, has been targeted by the TTP for carrying out operations against militant outfits in the Northwestern region of Pakistan and being secular in its ideology.

The National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) on Monday had told a Senate standing committee that some leading political leaders faced death threats from militant outfits ahead of the July 25 general elections in Pakistan.

The leaders include Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, the son of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, Asfandayar Wali Khan, and senior leadership of other parties. (PTI)

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Peshawar, Feb 5: The debate over Nawaz Sharif's disqualification from the post of Prime Minister is not yet over as the former PM misses no opportunity to hit back at the Apex court who barred him from the PMs post.
According to a report published in Dawn, the former PM in his public rally in Peshwar on Sunday, reiterated that the masses had elected him prime minister for five years, but only “the five persons” (judges) disqualified him.
“What was my fault? Had I been disqualified for receiving bribe or for not receiving salary from my son. Where is the sanctity of vote?” he questioned.
The former PM appealed to the voters in Peshawar to elect his party Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) in upcoming general elections so that the laws to ' stop disqualification of an elected prime minister in future” could be formulated.
Mr Sharif was disqualified by a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court last year for not declaring his salary that he claimed he never had received.
He also hit back at the judiciary for issuing contempt of court notices to Minister of State for Interior Tallal Chaudhry and federal Priva­tisation Minister Daniyal Aziz for their ‘hard-hitting speeches’ against the Apex court.
“First you issued a contempt notice to Tallal and then summoned Daniyal. How you will answer God?”, former PM said.
Mr Sharif didn't spare his political rival and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan.
The former PM asked Mr Khan to look at the crowd in Peshawar, claiming the size shows that the people did not accept the disqualification of their leader. He said the masses knew that he “worked day and night” for development, ending loadshedding and building the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
General election in Pakistan are scheduled on 15 July 2018. UNI 
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Hello Jammu News at 4:19:00 PM 0

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 27: Pakistan's opposition Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by former cricket hero Imran Khan, swept to a comfortable by-election victory on the edge of the northwestern city of Peshawar, though its majority was trimmed by new hardline religious parties. PTI candidate Arbab Amir Ayub clinched 45,631 votes, about 34.8 percent of the total, on Thursday to ensure PTI kept the parliamentary seat in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) that it governs. The by-election was seen as a litmus test of PTI's popularity in KP, where it has focused on police, health and education reforms in contrast to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party betting on road and energy infrastructure projects. Khan, the PTI chairman, touted the victory as a "direct vote of confidence" in his party's performance governing KP since the 2013 election, when it won the National Assembly seat, known as Peshawar NA-4, with a majority of about 40 percent. The next general election is due in mid-2018 but Khan has called for early polls after PML-N leader and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was toppled in July by a Supreme Court disqualification over an undeclared source of income. Analysts say Khan's chances of becoming prime minister have been boosted by Sharif's ouster, and the sportsman has doubled down on his populist message by saying he will pull the country away from infrastructure spending towards improving schools, hospitals and the lives of the poor. "Most of the youngsters like Imran Khan and believe he can steer the country out of crisis and stop corruption," said Zahid Hussain, a government contractor. Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Khushdil Khan secured 24,830 votes, or 18.9 percent of the total, to pip PML-N's Nasir Khan Musazai, who won 23,169 votes to finish third. Khushdil Khan's showing will hearten the ANP, whose candidates barely campaigned in 2013 as the Pakistani Taliban targeted and killed many of its leaders and activists in KP. But it was the performance of two new hardline religious parties that caught the eye of political observers. Muhammad Shafiq Ameeni, a candidate for the Tehreek-i-Labaik party, won 7.6 percent of the ballot campaigning on a platform of support for Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws that are already some of the world's harshest. Labaik supporters have spread their hardline message, including the notion that those who commit blasphemy against Islam should be killed, through mosques and seminaries. Syed Moharram Shah, a Labaik activist, said the party was surprised it captured 9,060 votes because it wasn't fully prepared for the election. "This is our first attempt but look at people's response. It's very much encouraging," he said. Alhaj Liaqat Ali Khan, an independent candidate backed by the Milli Muslim League (MML) party, loyal to Hafiz Saeed, an Islamist under house arrest, obtained 3,557 votes. Washington accuses Saeed of being the mastermind behind the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people, and has placed a $10 million bounty on his head. Saeed denies the charge. Last month, candidates backed by Labaik and MML won about 11 percent of the ballot in a by-election for Sharif's vacated seat in a by-election in the eastern city of Lahore. REUTERS
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