Posts Tagged ‘Wana’

MNA Saima Akhtar joins PML-N

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Independent member of the National Assembly from NA-90 Shorkot Saima Akhtar Bharwana has announced to join PML-N. She took the decision after meeting with CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif in Lahore.  During the meeting MPA from Jhang, Mehr Sultan Sikandar Bharwana and former Adviser to the Chief Minister Mehr Muhammad Aslam Bharwana were also present.
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Pervaiz offers green pasture to all loyalists

LAHORE – Senior PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi during a meeting with party leaders from Jhang said that those  members who remained loyal to the party “through thick and thin” would be given their due place in the party.
He expressed these views while talking to party members belonging to Jhang, Sahibzada Mehboob Sultan, Sahibzada Nazir Sultan and Ghulam Bibi Bharwana at his …

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A vicious cycle

Rizwana Naqvi explains how deeply poverty affects the lives of the disadvantaged communities “We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected. We are committed to making the right to development [...]

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Building highway to fight militancy

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WANA (Reuters) – Deep in country’s unruly tribal areas, army engineers protected by soldiers on mountaintops spend hours every morning combing the earth for Taliban bombs before embarking on a special mission.
After determining there is no danger, they use machinery to cut through rugged terrain to build a highway…

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US missile strike kills three in South Waziristan

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistani intelligence officials say an American missile strike has killed at least three people in a militant stronghold near the Afghan border. The two officials say a pair of missiles struck a house near the town of Wana in South Waziristan on Tuesday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were [...]

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UAE’s YouTube sensation killed in car crash

#container{background:#666666;} DUBAI: Emirati footballer Theyab Awana, who became an internet sensation this summer after scoring a back-heeled penalty, has been killed in a car crash, the country’s football federation confirmed on Monday. Awana died after being involved in an accident when travelling back from training in Al Ain to Abu Dhabi on Sunday, where he [...]

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Cadet college for Wana okayed

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ISLAMABAD – President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday signed the regulation for establishment of Wana Cadet College in South Waziristan Agency, FATA. Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said that the Prime Minister during his address at the Governor House Peshawar on August 27, 2008 had announced the establishment of six…

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US drone strike kills five in SWA

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PESHAWAR – A US drone strike targeting a vehicle in South Waziristan border killed at least five militants on Monday, local security officials said.
Two missiles fired by the drone hit the vehicle in Azam Warsak, 15 kilometres west of Wana, the main town of the South Waziristan region, where…

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Highway Patrol claims arrest of 2 killers of 4

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LAHORE – The Punjab Highway Patrol claimed to have arrested two killers of four persons here on Thursday.
PHP team Jewana Bangla received a message from PHP helpline 1124 that an accident took place near Adda Sabirabad. The PHP team rushed to the spot and found a car (755/LEE)…

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Pakistan Taliban make bonfire of ‘un-Islamic’ cloth

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A Taliban group in Pakistan on Tuesday burned a huge quantity of cloth taken from shopkeepers, saying it was too thin to be made into suitably modest garments, officials said. The Islamist extremists stormed shops in Wana, the main town of the lawless South Waziristan tribal region, which borders Afghanistan, and made a [...]

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US delayed information about IED factories to embarrass Pakistan: Gen Rizwan

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The General Officer Commanding (GOC) in South Waziristan, Major General Rizwan Akhter on Thursday blamed the US for attempting to embarrass Pakistan by delaying information about explosives factories located in the agency.
Talking to media persons here in Wana, Rizwan Akhter said that a third force was creating hurdles in…

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US drones strikes kill 21 in South Waziristan

WANA: Missile strikes from two US drones killed at least 21 suspected militants in Pakistan’s South Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani officials said, part of an intensified US assault in the tribal belt this month. In the first strike, a missile hit a moving vehicle in Ghalmandi Panga village on the Afghan border, killing eight militants. [...]

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Tribesmen stand by Pakistan army: Kayani

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Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has hailed role of people of Pakistan’s tribal areas for the country in testing times, saying that the courageous tribesmen would standby the armed forces.
Addressing a groundbreaking ceremony of Wana-Angoor Ada road in South Waziristan bordering Afghanistan, the army chief said…

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9 killed in SWaziristan drone attacks

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Three insurgents were killed when US drones fired missiles in South Waziristan Agency on Wednesday. A resident said two missiles were fired on a house. “There was a huge blast and we can see smoke rising from the compound,” a witness in Wana said. Two missiles targeted a vehicle used…

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From Lahore to Wana

Religious extremism did not grow in Wana. Rather its origins can be traced to Punjab. The dagger which drew the first blood in the name of faith was used in Lahore and not in Miranshah. The wind of fanaticism had already swept through the land of five rivers before it shook the mighty Hindukush. There [...]

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Drone strike kills Ilyas Kashmiri

LADHA: Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, the commander of Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami (HuJI), who was believed to have masterminded the attack on the naval base in Karachi, was killed in a US drone attack near Wana, South Waziristan, on Friday night, officials said. Shoaib Khan, a political agent, confirmed that Kashmiri had died in the strike [...]

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US missile strikes kill eight in South Waziristan

MIRAMSHAH: Two US missile strikes, one of which targeted a militant compound, killed eight suspected militants in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region on Friday, security officials said. One of the strikes took place in Ghwakhwa area, 10 kilometres west of Wana, the main town of South Waziristan. “A US drone fired three missiles on a [...]

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