MIRAMSHAH: Two missiles were fired by a US drone at a place near Miramshah in North Waziristan Agency on Thursday night. According to local sources, unmanned US spy plane fired two missiles at a house located in Chashma area of Miranshah, the tribal headquarters of North Waziristan Agency (NWA). At least three people were killed and several others injured. Daily Mashriq, The News, The Nation, Dawn.
PESHAWAR: Restoring peace in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas will be difficult to achieve unless economic disparities and administrative mismanagement are ended, a requisite for defeating militancy, according to the participants of a daylong consultative workshop held here on Thursday. Participants emphasised the need for prudent policies to encourage the emergence of a new leadership and remove deprivations in Fata, which, they said, would help reclaim the space lost to militants. Dawn.
PESHAWAR: The National Institute of Health, Islamabad on Thursday found four more children from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas to be polio cases. Of these cases, three were reported in North Waziristan Agency and one in Khyber Agency. They brought this year`s nationwide polio cases to 70, including 48 from Fata, 10 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, seven from Punjab and five from Sindh. Dawn, The Express Tribune.
PESHAWAR: The workers of ruling parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continued to block supplies to Nato forces in Afghanistan on Thursday and vowed to carry on their protest till end to US drone attacks in tribal and settled areas of Pakistan. Prof Ibrahim, the provincial chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, a coalition partner in the provincial government, visited the protest camp in Hayatabad Township and asked the federal government to consider the drone strike in Hangu an attack on Islamabad and order halting of Nato supplies forthwith. The entire nation was united against the Nato supplies to Afghanistan via Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of violation of the country`s territory by the US, he said. Dawn.
PESHAWAR: The sit-in of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its coalition partners continued for sixth consecutive day on Thursday and workers of PTI blocked the NATO supply routes in Kohat, D.I.Khan, Peshawar, Sawabi and Nowshera. The Nation.
BAJAUR AGENCY: Army Sector Commander North Brig Haider has said that maintaining of peace in the area and provision of basic and modern civic facilities to tribesmen are the top priorities of security forces and all possible means are being used for the purpose.
He was speaking at a ceremony to inaugurate month-long cleaning drive here at Khar on Thursday. A large number of tribal elders, political and religious leaders, social activists, traders, students, Commandant Bajaur Scouts, Political Agent Syed Abdul Jabar Shah and senior officials of the security forces and the local administration attended the ceremony aimed at making the agency beautiful. The Nation.
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar here on Thursday stressed the need for giving representation to women in tribal jirga so that they could raise voice for their rights. The seminar was arranged by Society for Rights and Development in collaboration with Strengthening Participator Organisation (SPO) as part of community awareness regarding gender-based violence. Addressing the seminar, executive director of Society for Rights and Development Zar Ali Khan Musazai said that jirgas were constituted in tribal areas to decide the future of a girl or woman but unfortunately there was no representation of women in those jirgas. `In Pakhtun jirgas women are not given representation and only men have the power to decide the future of women and girls,` he added. Dawn.
PESHAWAR: Youth Forum of Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry has planned to support young fashion designers in Peshawar so that they could compete with people in other big cities of the country. Dawn.
GHALANAI: Speakers at a seminar here on Thursday called for protection of women rights, saying women empowerment is vital for progress and prosperity of Mohmand Agency. Mohmand Community for Education and Development (MCED) in collaboration with Strengthening Participatory Organisation (SPO) organised the seminar on women rights here at Government Girls Higher Secondary School. Local schoolgirls and teachers, women activists, senior officials of the local administration and social workers participated in the seminar. Dawn.
KHAR: Army Sector Commander (North) Brigadier Haider on Thursday said maintaining peace in Bajaur Agency and provision of basic and modern civic facilities to tribesmen was the top most priority of security forces. The army commander also asked local residents to continue supporting the forces and administration in maintaining law and order, saying peace was vital for development of the region. He was speaking at a ceremony organised here to inaugurate a month-long cleanliness campaign. Tribal elders, political and religious leaders, social activists, traders, students, commandant of Bajaur Scouts, political agent of Bajaur Abdul Jabbar Shah andsenior officials of security forces and local administration attended the event. Brigadier Haider said all possible means were being used to make the drive a success. Dawn.
PESHAWAR: Bomb Disposal Squad foiled a terror bid after defusing two remote control devices carrying 18 kg explosives in Sarband on Thursday. Police said that they received information that unidentified miscreants planted remote control device on roadside targeting police van, however, after the information cops instantly called BDS officials who successfully defused the bombs. BDS officials said that both bombs carrying 18 kg explosives. The Frontier Post.
PESHAWAR: In an interesting development, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has allowed doctors to carry guns for their personal security. The KPK government decided to give arms licenses to doctors in the wake of rising incidents of extortion and kidnapping. The Frontier Post, The Nation.
PESHAWAR: A Pre-Development Budget 2014, 15 consultation session for real stakeholders of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) was held on Thursday under the aegis of Planning and Development Department FATA Secretariat in Peshawar aimed to approve the forthcoming budget in the lights of recommendations of tribal people. Representatives from different walks of life including students, tribal elders, and parliamentarians, officials of various departments of FATA, youth and media persons attended the session. Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) FATA Arbab Muhammad Arif while welcoming the participants said that the event was meant to have a shared understanding on the development of FATA. He said that the consultation session was the first of its nature which he hoped would lead to transparency and good governance in tribal belt. The Frontier Post, The Express Tribune.
PESHAWAR: Ten missing persons have been shifted to internment centres across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). This was learnt by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday while hearing petitions of 279 missing persons from K-P and the tribal areas. A two-member PHC bench comprising Justice Mian Fasilul Mulk and Justice Ikramullah Khan was informed the federal taskforce for missing persons report would be presented in court within two to three days. The Express Tribune.
PESHAWAR:The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has renamed Directorate of Counter Terrorism (DCT) of Police Department as Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The CTD will be having the mandate of Intelligence collection, surveillance and monitoring, registration of terrorism cases, investigation of ATA cases, arrest and detentions and research and analysis. The strength of the Directorate of Counter Terrorism has been merged into Counter Terrorism Department and the sanctioned strength of CTD will be DIG-1, SP-12, DSPI-43, Inspector 153, SI-289, ASI-249, HC-314, FC-1170, Diver-119 (Total-2350).
For operational purposes, seven CTD police stations (one at CCP and one each at six Regional HQrs), will function. These police stations will also work as detention centres. Till the new police stations are constructed, Inspector General of Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will declare existing police buildings in CCP and different regions of function as CTD Police stations. It was notified by Home and Tribal Affairs Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Nation.
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Engineer Shaukatullah has said the war on terro can be won with the help of education. “We have people like Malala Yousafzai who fought with pen against terrorism and Maria Torpakai who has carved out a niche for her in Squash internationally. We are also actively engaged to bring our youth both of the province and FATA in playgrounds and fight terrorism through promotion of sports and education,” he said.
The government, he added, is putting hectic efforts in making all this possible and the world should also come forward and do more for us in further cementing our efforts in this respect. The Nation.
