PESHAWAR, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Web Edition commenced from December 25, 2005
Editor-in-Chief: Barkatullah Marwat
Executive Editor: Abdul Shakoor Abi Hassan
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Doctor kidnapped, son killed in Nowshera
Mushtaq Paracha
NOWSHERA: A doctor was kidnapped and his son was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near Suriakhel on Grand Trunk Road on Saturday, official sources said.
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Six minors die of waterborne disease in Chakdarra
Muhammad Jalil
Barkatullah Marwat
CHAKDARRA: Six minors died of waterborne disease in Adenzai tehsil of Lower Dir district on Friday, sources said.
PESHAWAR: The government has failed to compensate the families of 15 civilians killed in firing by security forces after an army officer was allegedly shot dead by a group of militants in Spin area in South Waziristan last year.
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Shamble building of school posing threat to students’ lives
Irfan Burki
Maaz Jan Dirvi
WANA: Soldier and two militants were killed in clash in Ladha tehsil of South Waziristan early Sunday, official and tribal sources said.
MARDAN: The students and teachers have asked the provincial government to reconstruct the dilapidated building of a local school as it was posing threat to the students’ lives.
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Smuggling of non-custom paid goods at rise in Landikotal
Ashrafuddin Pirzada
Rafia Khan
LANDIKOTAL: A blind folded smuggling from and into Pakistan has reached to its peak as hundreds of mini-trucks and pickups daily shift US-made and non-custom paid goods via different ghost routs in Landikotal tehsil, a well
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UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, PESHAWAR: The students of Journalism and Mass Communication
2 minors freed, 2 kidnappers held in Swat
Minor killed, 2 women injured as shell hits house in Khyber
Essa Khankhel
Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: A child was killed and two other sustained injuries when rocket shell hit a house in Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency on Monday, local and official sources said.
MINGORA: The police released two children after arresting two kidnappers in Khwazakhela tehsil in Swat on Monday, official sources said.
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KUWAIT DIARY
LETTERS
Man kills wife's paramour in Kuwait
Fake degrees
Col (r) Riaz Jafri
The issue of a plethora of fake degrees is being given a Machiavellian twist by the politicians who take the naïve voters for a ride by saying that a usurper had introduced this clause with the malafides intention of keeping the seasoned politician out of the assemblies.
Abdul Shakoor Abi Hassan
KUWAIT CITY: The Criminal Court has summoned witnesses and forensics experts from the Interior Ministry to shed light on the
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OP-ED
EDITORIAL
A judge seeks justice
Rahimullah Yusufzai
A job-seeker’s lament
Barkatullah Marwat
A perennial job-seeker with a master’s degree has asked the chief justice of the Peshawar High Court to provide him justice after failing to find one since 1995.
The senior-most serving judge in Pakistan's four High Courts has been quietly seeking justice as he believes he has been wronged.
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