The Federal Government has agreed in principal to rename Peshawar International Airport after the name of Khudai Khidmatgar Khan Abdul Ghaffar alias Baacha Khan in recognition to his services for the Muslims of sub continent and struggle as preacher of non-violence.

The jubilant President of Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan announced this at a public meeting held in connection with the 24th death anniversary of Baacha Khan and 6th death anniversary of Rehbr e Tehrik Khan Abdul Wali Khan held here at Tehmas Khan Stadium.

Seven persons, including four children, were killed and two others sustained injuries when the roofs of two houses collapsed in Mohallah Shah Qabool No2, Namakmandi, here early Wednesday.

Six of those killed included a couple and their four children while one woman died in the second house. The apparent reason for the collapse of the houses seemed to be an explosion caused by gas leakage. However, some police officials and locals said the buildings were in a dilapidated condition.

Six schoolchildren who had mysteriously disappeared from a private school in Rawalpindi on Thursday were recovered from a hotel at Hashtnagri area here on Monday, police said. More >

Pakistan on Monday sternly rejected an American account of a deadly NATO airstrike in November, an incident that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at a post near the Afghan border and severely strained ties between the long-wary allies.

In a terse formal report, the Pakistani military maintained its previously stated position that coalition forces conducting a ground raid in Afghanistan carried sole blame for a clash that it said was “deliberate at some level.”

Due to maintenance work power supply will remain suspended from 132 kv Peshawar Cantt Grid station on Saturday and Monday from 9 am to 2 pm, resultantly the consumers of 11 KV ICF feeders will face inconvenience.

Power supply will remain suspended from 132 kv Sakhi Chashma Grid station on Saturday from 9 am to 2 pm, resultantly the consumers of 11 KV New Industrial and scarp feeders will face inconvenience.

At least six personnel of security forces including three policemen and three Frontier Constabulary (FC) Jawans and two militants were killed when a group of militants attacked a checkpost at Sarband area in the outskirts of Peshawar in wee hours of Friday. Ten people also sustained injuries in the attack. More >

Unknown gunmen on Tuesday killed a local journalist when he was praying at a mosque in the northwest of the country, police said. Mukarram Khan Aatif, a 43-year-old correspondent with Deewa radio, was attacked at a mosque near his home in Shabqadar Town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 30 kilometers north of Peshawar.

“The two attackers came on a motorbike, fired bullets at Aatif in the mosque and escaped. He suffered bullet wounds to the head,” local police officer Zahir Shah told media. Another police official confirmed the incident.

In a bid to upgrade security for foreign diplomats, authorities are planning on constructing a diplomatic enclave in the provincial capital to avoid terrorist attacks on sensitive installations and personnel of diplomatic missions.

Law enforcement agencies have not only been providing them with pilot squads but also with foolproof security at both their offices and residences.

Doctors on Monday observed complete strike at the four public sector tertiary care hospitals of the province and vowed to continue the protest for two more days against the kidnapping and subsequent murder of noted cardiologist Dr Syed Jamal Shah. More >

wo people were killed and 28 others injured when a bomb exploded in the basement of a multi-storey plaza on the main University Road on Tuesday.

Cantonment Circle SP Dr Mian Saeed Ahmed said one man died on the spot and the other in hospital.

The injured were taken to the Khyber Teaching Hospital where six of them were said to be in critical condition.