Security
Four FC Soldiers Killed in IED Blast
PARACHINAR: A captain and three soldiers of the Frontier Corps were martyred and three others injured in two blasts in the Kharlachi area of Kurram Agency. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the blasts happened when troops were searching for the militants linked to the kidnapping of the US-Canadian family freed last week. The ISPR’s statement did not give details of the blasts said to have been caused by improvised explosive devices (IED). Sources in Kharlachi town said that security personnel were combing the area opposite the Khewrha Post of Afghan border force. Three of the personnel were injured when the first IED went off. One of them died later. Dawn
FC Balochistan nabs 14 illegal Afghans
RAWALPINDI: The Frontier Corps Balochistan apprehended 14 illegal Afghan nationals and recovered 45 kilogram of explosives, ammunition and weapons. The News
Drone Strike Kills Five In Kurram Agency
SADDA: Five people were killed in a US drone strike near the Pak-Afghan border in Upper Kurram Agency. The sources added that the US pilotless drone fired missiles at a compound in Ghwazguri area of the Kurram tribal agency. Radio TNN
Socio Economic
Tribesmen Protest Against Proposed ‘Privatization’ Of Landi Kotal Hospital
LANDI KOTAL: Workers of Pakistan Justice Democratic Party (PJDP) staged a protest demonstration against the proposed privatization of the Agency Headquarters Hospital here on Monday. They were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans condemning what they called “privatization” of the hospital. He feared that if the hospital was privatized, the poor people of the area would be deprived of medical facilities as they wouldn’t be able to afford doctors’ fees and costly medicines. Radio TNN
Fata Students Forum flays Fazl for opposing Fata-KP merger
PESHAWAR: All Fata Students Forum, a group of different organisations, have rejected the youth convention of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), describing it against the interests of tribal people and urged the federal government to ensure merger of Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the earliest. Flanked by Insaf Students Federation President Akhtar Gul, Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba focal person Waseem Haider, Khyber Youth Forum Aamir Afridi, Kurram Students Organisation president Muhammad Saleem, Farhad Ali said that the JUI-F convention had completely failed as maximum of the participants belonged to settled districts who had nothing to do with the merger issue. The News
Political
Lines Dividing Pakthuns Will Not Be Accepted Anymore: Asfandyar Wali
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party central leader Asfandyar Wali Khan said that lines drawn during British Raj dividing Pakhtuns would not be accepted anymore. Referring towards Maulana Fazlur Rahman and Mehmud Khan Achakzai’s opposition about Fata reforms, Arguing that Fata would be merged with Khyber Pakthunkhwa either they wish it to be or not. He also criticized JUI-F and said that Maulana Fazl didn’t want to see Pakhtuns get united in Pakistan. Radio TNN
