were injured during an intelligence-based operation in tehsil Katlang of Mardan district in Khyber

Dead bodies are difficult to identify because of their condition, ” he added.Dr Ali continued, “ I want to ask the federal government and the authorities: what crime did these people commit?... These mountainous areas in Swat and Mardan are connected.“ The real problem is that we are not being allowed to enter the area and collect the bodies, ” he added.... These people were locals from Swat, it is not as if they crossed the border.“ These are peaceful people who have lived here for thousands

Zafar was accompanied by his wife, Farzana alias Gul Bibi, aged 40. Mazhar stated that the couple was at his house when the suspects forcibly entered and opened indiscriminate fire on his brother and sister-in-law, killing them on the spot.... He said the man had returned to his brother’s home in Mardan after several years from Faisalabad. Faheem claimed that the woman’s family allegedly carried out the attack and fled the scene.... The previous two years also saw a consistent rise in murders

PESHAWAR: With no let-up in their tensions for the third consecutive day, lawyers and civil servants staged strikes and protests against each other across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday and announced more in the days ahead. Both sides blamed each other for the controversy, which began on Thursday night following the arrest of senior lawyer Syed Ghufranullah Shah over an FIR registered against him on a complaint of Peshawar’s additional assistant commissioner Aftab Ahmad for allegedly attacking his