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towns of Kurram, FATA, Pakistan
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Anadolu Agency
April 15, 2018
Pakistani military's media wing ISPR told Anadolu Agency that Pakistani border troops had come under fire in the country's Kurram Agency. ... told Anadolu Agency clashes broke out in the morning when Pakistani border forces allegedly opened fire at villages in Zazi Maiden district along the Durand Line.
The News International (blog)
April 7, 2018
Ali Begum belongs to a prominent family from Maikai Malana village in Kurram Agency. Her family is educated and enjoys respect in the area. Her younger brother Dr Miqdad Ali is a well-known cardiologist in Peshawar. She did her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education from the University ofÃâà...
The Express Tribune
April 2, 2018
Anti-PTM rallies were held in Mohmand, Khyber, Kurram agencies and also in the K-P towns of Kohat, Shabqadar and Charsadda. People from different walks of lives praised the Pak Army and its sacrifices for maintaining peace in FATA and K-P. Protestors termed PTM anti-state and anti-forces.
DAWN.com
March 20, 2018
The police officer's body was sent to his native village in Sadda, lower Kurram Agency for burial. ROBBERS' GANG BUSTED: The police ... The SHO city, acting on a tip-off, raided rickshaw market on Kohat-Hangu road and arrested the auto thief, Tahir Ali, of College Town. He was traced through modernÃâà...
The Express Tribune
March 19, 2018
A vacant lot, leveled during the two-year Pakistani offensive against the Haqqani network lies dormant in the North Waziristan city of Miran Shah. ... Clean, safe and secure villages and towns are now being touted by Islamabad as the supposed hallmarks of tribal regions on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border,Ãâà...
DunyaNews Pakistan
March 19, 2018
LAHORE (Dunya News) – The Punjab capital on Tuesday underwent exceptionally pleasant weather as rain lashed the city and brought joy to the people. Scattered rain also occurred in different parts of the country including Faisalabad, Kasur, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Mian Chunnu, Quetta, Kurram agencyÃâà...
UrduPoint News
March 3, 2018
:A new children ward has been opened in Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Sadda in Kurram Agency. Sadda ... They said they used to take their children to other cities due to lack of facilities in Sadda Hospital, but now their problems will end with the opening of children ward in Sadda Hospital. "We faced manyÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 3, 2018
The town is the administrative centre of the northern half of Waziristan, a lawless region once controlled by jihadists that Barack Obama called “the most ... Among those now holed up in Kurram is the Haqqani network, an ally of the Afghan Taliban that America says the Pakistani army is shielding. In his firstÃâà...
The Economist
March 2, 2018
But Pakistan's army, which fought a 22-month campaign from 2014 to evict militants from North Waziristan, is trying to transform the town from a byword for ... Among those now holed up in Kurram is the Haqqani network, an ally of the Afghan Taliban that America says the Pakistani army is shielding.
NEWS.com.au
February 12, 2018
In December last year, members of the group attacked a college in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, shooting dead at least nine people and injuring 36. Islamabad opposes the ... A Pakistani tribesman inspects the site of a drone strike in the Kurram tribal district on January 24, 2018. Picture: AFPSource:AFP.
DAWN.com
February 9, 2018
Among others, 135 fugitives are hiding in the adjacent tribal areas for years, 90 POs in Orakzai Agency, four in Khyber Agency, 29 in Kurram Agency, ... by cantonment police station, 48 by city, 49 by Junglekhel, 101 by Bilitang, 64 by Gumbat, 97 by Jarma, one by KDA Town, 238 by Lachi, 66 by Ustarzai,Ãâà...
DAWN.com
February 7, 2018
KOHAT: Patients visiting the Liaquat Memorial Hospital (LMH), located in the city centre, continue to suffer as its wards are in a dilapidated condition and no ... Patients from the city and as far as Kurram and Orakzai tribal agencies, Hangu and Karak visit the hospital for treatment, but none of the former andÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
January 30, 2018
The family was on its way to attend a funeral in the Kurram tribal area when the blast occurred, local government official Akbar Iftikhar said on January 30. "Three women ... Mumtaz Hussain, a doctor at a hospital in Parachinar, the main town in Kurram, said one survivor was in a stable condition. No groupÃâà...
The News International
January 24, 2018
The pre-dawn strike took place well inside Pakistan territory, more than 50 kilometres from the Afghan border in Mamuzai village of Kurram tribal district. Pakistani government officials said it was carried out by a US drone. The US embassy in Islamabad declined to comment. A senior government official inÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 14, 2017
In June, two explosions at a crowded market in the Kurram city of Parachinar killed at least 70 people in an attack claimed by the Sunni extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. MSF said it continues to provide medical care in Bajaur Agency in FATA, as well in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, and BalochistanÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 24, 2017
Earlier this month, at least six people were killed in the eastern city of Lahore when a Taliban suicide bomber targeted a census team and soldiers guarding it. Last month, a bomb targeting a Shia mosque in Kurram's main town of Parachinar killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens more.
Global Village space (blog)
December 31, 1999
Speculations are rife in the twin city that on April 29 during the public rally of Imran Khan at Minare Pakistan, 45-50 member national assembly will leave the ruling PML-N for Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf. Even the GT-road ... in Panama case. Read more: Kurram IED blast: Signs of a new terror war to comeÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
A special intelligence-based operation was carried out by the security forces along with intelligence agencies in Kurram Agency, against terrorist networks involved in three major terrorist activities in the main town of Parachinar, an army statement said. The terrorists had planned suicide bombing withÃâà...
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