Posts Tagged ‘Mardan’

Students display artistic flair

PESHAWAR, Jan 31: A total of 196 students from Bannu, D.I. Khan, Lakki Marwat, Charsadda, Swabi, Mardan, Nowshera, Peshawar and Federally Administered Tribal Areas on Tuesday exhibited their flair for communication

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Industrialists to challenge fuel adjustment

PESHAWAR, Jan 23: Industrialists of Mardan and Nowshera on Monday opposed fuel adjustment in electricity bills and warned that if the recent increase in fuel adjustment was not withdrawn, they would shut down their businesses.

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Hoti favours early polls after consensus

MARDAN, Jan 14: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Saturday favoured early elections in the country but said their holding was conditional on approval by all political parties.

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Pir Pagara funeral prayers offered

The funeral prayers of Pir Pagara Syed Mardan Shah offered amidst thousands of mourning people including mureed and devotees here in Pir Jo Goth on Thursday.
Several politicians who attended the funeral include Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, former Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, former Sindh Assembly Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain …

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Syed Sibghatullah Rashdi named 8th Pir of Hur Jamaat

Syed Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi, the elder son of Late Pir Syed Mardan Shah II or Pir Pagara, has been named the 8th Pir of the Hur Jamaat.
The decision was taken in a meeting of Khalifas of Hur Jamaat from Pakistan and India, held in Pir Jo Goth. while Dastarbandi of new Pir Pagara was also made after announcement of the name.
It should be mentioned here that four sons of late Pir Pagara , Pir …

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Pir Pagara is no more

LONDON – Spiritual leader of Hur Community and Chief of Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) Pir Mardan Shah-II, more commonly known as Pir Pagara, breathed his last at the age of 83 here on Tuesday, reported a private TV channel.
Pir Pagara was taken to a hospital in London by a special air ambulance on January 5, along with his physician and family, as he suffered infection following treatment …

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Eight militants arrested in Mardan after fire exchange, one policeman killed

A police sub inspector was killed in clashes with militants here in Mardan on Friday during which police arrested eight militants.
According to police the clashes took place in Bakhshali area of Mardan where heavy fire exchange was witnessed when police conducted search operations.
A sub inspector was killed while a militant got injured in the clash.
The police arrested eight militants after fire …

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Fazl asks govt to get rid of ‘US slavery’

MARDAN, Jan 1: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, has urged the government to get rid of what he described as the slavery of Americans.

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Pashto writer remembered

MARDAN, Dec 28: Pashto writer, poet and researcher Qazi Abdul Haleem Asar Afghani was remembered during a function of Pashto Adabi Tolana (Pashto literary society) in Takht Bhai tehsil on Wednesday.

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Biggest dacoit of Pakistan has become president: Imran

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said that biggest dacoit in the country has become Pakistan’s president. Addressing a huge public meeting here in Mardan on Friday Khan said that there was no honesty in Pakistan and poor’s rights were being exploited. He said that the people who should…

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Wapda workers rise against price hike

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LAHORE (PR) – Hundreds of Wapda workers held protest demonstrations across the country against price hike and proposed privatisation of thermal plants and Wapda.
Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union workers held rallies in major cities like Gujranwala, Gujrat, Peshawar, Mardan, Abbotabad, Quetta, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Nawabshah, Guddu, Muzaffargarh, Multan,…

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Hoti accused of shifting uplift funds to Charsadda, Mardan

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KARAK – Former provincial minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Sher Nawaz Khattak has claimed that there was no room for corrupt people in the PTI ranks.
He alleged that every chief minister in the province served only his native district. This he said while addressing the party workers at Town…

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Policeman killed, 9 injured in Mardan blast

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A bomb attack on a girls’ school in Mardan on Tuesday killed a policeman, wounded nine others and destroyed a wall, police said. The remote-controlled bomb was planted at the outer wall of the government-run middle school in the outskirts of Mardan town. The bomb exploded after police arrived to…

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Another girls’ school blown up by militants in Mardan

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Unknown assailants blew up the Girls Middle School Katlang in Mardan on Tuesday, a private TV reported.
According to police, three rooms of the school were completely destroyed in the explosion, while two were partially damaged. More than 20 kilograms of explosives was used in the attack, police said. Up…

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Hoti asks militants to lay down arms

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MARDAN – Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ameer Haider Hoti Saturday said that they did not remain silent over militancy in the province, as they were feeling and considerate about their Pakhtun brothers.
He said if they also remained silent over militant activities in the province,…

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Hoti wants AWKU to review decision

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PESHAWAR – Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has requested the Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, to review is decision to confer honorary PhD degree in Political Science upon him.
Extending his gratitude to the chancellor, vice chancellor and syndicate of AWKU on their decision, he said…

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Court orders police to register abduction case

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MARDAN – District and Session Judge has ordered local police to register FIR against the accused of kidnapping a girl, official sources said.
They said a woman named Rewat Bibi, wife of Rahib Khan, resident of Ghulam Sarwar Kally Rustam, submitted an application under Section 22 A stating that Sher…

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