A bomb planted in a manhole killed one policeman and wounded another in Peshawar on Monday, police said.

A hidden remote controlled improvised explosive device went off as the two policemen were patrolling the city’s Khazana suburb on foot, senior police official Shafiullah Khan told AFP. “One policeman was martyred while another was wounded,” he said.

Taking serious notice of Friday’s Bhoja Air plane crash, the Peshawar High Court ordered the federal government on Wednesday to immediately suspend the director general of Civil Aviation Authority and also issued contempt of court notice to him and the federal defence secretary for having failed to comply with its orders about conducting safety audits of all passenger aircraft of PIA and private airlines.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Mian Fasihul Mulk directed the two officials to appear in person on May 30, the next date of hearing, and explain in writing why a final show-cause notice should not be issued to them and why they should not be prosecuted for committing contempt of court.

In a bid to maintain the law and order situation and to combat terrorist activities in Peshawar, the city administration has decided to repatriate the Afghan nationals residing illegally in the city, as well as those who lack proper registration documents.
“All illegal Afghan nationals living in Peshawar must go back to their homeland by May 25th, otherwise proper action will be taken against them,” said Peshawar District Coordination Officer (DCO) Siraj Ahmad Khan during a press conference on Wednesday.

Flanked by Commissioner for Afghan Refugees Zaheer Ul Islam, the DCO said the purpose of such a decision was to reestablish peace in the city.

The Pakistan Society of Criminology (PSC) on Tuesday launched a special publication on ‘Policing Terrorism and Radicalism’ outlining the police role in ongoing battle against terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

Edited by Queensland University Prof Geoff Dean, it is also the 12th issue of the PSC. The society has also launched, ‘Towards a Functional Juvenile Justice System in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’ and two training manuals on juvenile justice. PSC President Fasihuddin has written the publications. The manuals are the first of its kind in Pakistan. KP Inspector General Akbar Khan Hoti, chief guest on the occasion, praised the role of the PSC in identifying weak spots in police through research.

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday granted bail to four accused allegedly charged and arrested in the murder case of Alamzeb, brother of the gang rape victim Uzma Ayub.

A single bench headed by Justice Miftahuddin Khan announced the decision on bail petitions of the accused persons reserved a week ago.The bench ordered release of the four accused in Alamzeb’s murder case on bail. They include Javed Shah, Wahidullah, Hakeem Shah and Rahmat Shah. Ghulam Mohiyuddin Malik appeared for the petitioners and Azhar Yousaf appeared for the complainants.

The withdrawal of most combat troops from Afghanistan at the end of 2014 has raised questions from Kabul to Brussels to Washington about the potential chaos that may follow if the Taliban press to take over again.

Few people are as worried about what the pullout could trigger next door in Pakistan as Lieutenant General Khalid Rabbani, commander of the frontline corps fighting terrorists in the northwest of the country.

Around 42 street children were unified with their families in the provincial capital in the last three months.

The Society for the protection of the rights of the child (SPARC) had found these children on the streets and had taken them to its Drop in Centre in Sikandar Town Peshawar. According to a press release after giving psycho social counseling to the children, the organization convinced them to go back to their homes and they agreed to do so.

Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday took sou motu notice of militants attack on Bannu Jail, in which over 380 inmates managed to escape. Dost Muhammad, the chief justice of the PHC, has also formed a two member judicial committee comprises Ashfaq Taj, additional registrar of Bannu bench and Adil Khan, the district and session judge, to inquire the incident. More >

A student was killed and another received critical injuries when suspected militants hurled a hand grenade at a private school in Chargano Kallay on the outskirts of provincial metropolis on Monday morning. More >

A student was killed and two others sustained injuries when unidentified armed men attacked a private school with a hand grenade on Monday, police said. The armed men on motorbike threw the hand grenade at Iqra Public School in Charganokaly on Charsadda Road, killing one grade student Ali, and injuring two others, including Waqarullah, while the name of the other victim could not immediately ascertained.

The grenade landed near a water tap where children were washing their hands, senior police officer Tahir Ayub told AFP. “Three children were wounded in the blast, one of them died on way to the hospital,” Ayub added. “We received the body of a six-year-old child,” doctor Rahim Jan of the city’s Lady Reading Hospital said. The assailants managed to escape from the scene. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear, but terrorists oppose secular and mixed-gender schooling.