FATA
KOHAT: Inspector General of Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Nasir Khan Durrani inaugurated the border check posts in Torghar and Kurram Pul areas near Kurram Agency and Waziristan Agency in Thall tehsil of Kohat division. Dawn
Pakistan
MARDAN: As many as 11 persons including two policemen were critically injured in a blast close to Toro Chowk here. The News, Dawn , The Frontier Post, The Daily Aaj
ISLAMABAD: Every Afghan family comprising about seven members would receive cash grant of about Rs300,000 on repatriation as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees have doubled the repatriation grant. According to sources, the grant to an individual refugee has been increased from $200 to $400 recently. The News
Karachi: Officials of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), with the assistance of an intelligence agency, arrested a suspected target killer said to be involved in planning an attack on Eid-ul-Fitr. The News
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate remanded 20 suspected Afghan and Bengali immigrants in prison and released 10 others roduced documents to prove their identity. Dawn
RAWALPINDI: In a major swoop, Rawalpindi Police claimed to have arrested 20 suspected persons for allegedly violating the 11 Punjab Residence Ordinance. The Frontier Post
Afghanistan
SAR-E-PUL: Nearly four people were killed and one injured in a suicide attack near a vehicle related to Haji Rahim, a former jihadi leader, in Takzar area of Sancharak district in Sar-e-Pul province. Tolo News , Khaama , Pajhwok
NANGARHAR: Up to 12 Daesh rebels were killed in a foreign troops drone strike in Kot district of Nangarhar province. Tolo News
KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani’s military advisor and leader of Hizb-e-Harakat Islami party, Sayed Hussain Anwari, has died of illness at the age of 60. Tolo News
KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani said that the Taliban does not have the ability to achieve victory in their continued war and urged the militant group to stop their violence and join the peace and reconciliation process. Tolo News
KABUL: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries should endorse concrete measures to improve the protection of civilians in the conflict in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to government leaders. Tolo News , Pajhwok
KANDAHAR: Twenty-five Taliban militants, including three local commanders I dentified as Zubair, Mullah Mubarak Shah and a third commander whose identity was yet to be ascertained, have been killed and five others injured while a dozen were arrested during security forces operation in the Khakrez district of southern Kandahar province. Pajhwok
NANGARHAR: The governor said the activities of Islamic State or Daesh group had been reduced in the Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province as a result of an ongoing operation against the outfit. Pajhwok
WASHINGTON: The US President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced that 8,400 American troops would remain in Afghanistan till the end of his administration in January 2017 as against 5,500 decided earlier. Pajhwok
NANGARHAR: A religious scholar was killed in a blast caused by a sticky magnetic bomb attached to his vehicle in the Momand Dara district of eastern Nangarhar province. Pajhwok
