Province Pakhtunkhwa Financial News

Airport police on 28 July informed that they have arrested a 16-year-old Pakistani girl who failed to produce a passport and visa for booking a ticket back to her country, reported Hindustan Times. The girl has been identified as Ghazal Parveen and is a resident of Pakistan’s Lahore, says the report. It added that Parveen arrived in India three years ago with her aunt and since then both of them were staying in Sikar’s Shrimadhopur.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of the country. The «counter-terrorism operation» on Saturday morning targeted hideouts of terrorists in the remote hilltop area of Katlang in the Mardan district, the provincial government said in a press note. It confirmed the civilian casualties and suggested that women and children might be among the victims. Later, official reports said 12 terrorists were killed during the operation. The press note, issued on Saturday, said the operation was based on «credible intelligence» about armed militants using the location as a hideout and transit point. It said «several high-value targets linked to ongoing militant activities in the region» were killed in the operation. «Unfortunately, subsequent reports have confirmed the presence of non-combatants, including women and children, at the periphery of the target zone, resulting in tragic civilian casualties,» the press note stated. Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Ali Amin Gandapur said the death of civilians during the operation was highly condemnable and tragic.

TTP outfit were killed by Pakistan police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in different engagements from January 1 to March 15, official data released on Thursday said. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police lost 26 policemen in the line of duty while fighting against terrorists during the same period, according to the data released by the Central Police Line here. The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is a militant group having ideological similarities with Afghan Taliban. Pakistan has witnessed an uptick in terror activities recently, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, after the TTP group ended its ceasefire with the government in November 2022. Giving the break-up of those injured, the Central Police Line data said, 31 were injured in gunbattles. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police faced 29 attacks on their installations in January, 24 in February and 15 till March 15 this year. The number of attacks on police posts made in the same period are 16 while seven police stations were attacked too.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant group operating along the Afghan-Pakistani border, allegedly carried out a suicide attack on the Jandola military camp in the Tank District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to several media reports. Pakistani news outlet Geo News reported that the Pakistan army killed eight to nine militants following the suicide attack near the Frontier Corps (FC) camp in South Waziristan district. Police officials told the media that a loud explosion was heard in Jandola, followed by heavy gunfire. Militants attempted to attack the Jandola checkpost but were stopped by Pakistan security forces. A suicide bomber, however, exploded a vehicle near the FC camp, Geo News quoted security sources as saying. The attack comes days after the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a militant group, on March 11, hijacked the Jaffar Express, a train en route from Quetta to Peshawar, in the strategic Bolan Valley. The train, which was carrying over 450 passengers, including 200 security personnel, became the center of a high-stakes standoff between the BLA and Pakistani security forces. Pakistani forces reported on Wednesday that they had eliminated all 50 attackers. According to military statements, the assailants killed 21 passengers, while the remaining passengers were safely rescued.

Pakistan is a Sunni-majority country, but Kurram district — in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan — has a large Shiite population and the communities have clashed for decades. Fresh fighting broke out last Thursday when two separate convoys of Shiite Muslims travelling under police escort were ambushed, killing more than 40 and sparking 10 days of battling with light and heavy weapons.

Pakistan have killed at least 82 people and wounded 156 more, a local official said Sunday. «Among the deceased, 16 were Sunni, while 66 belonged to the Shia community,» said a local administration official in Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, speaking on condition of anonymity. Pakistan is a Sunni-majority country but Kurram district — near the border with Afghanistan — has a large Shiite population and the communities have clashed for decades.

Sunni Muslims over a lingering land dispute in northwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday. The clashes — which started over the weekend in Kurram, a district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan — continued on Wednesday. Officials said dozens of people from both sides have been wounded since Saturday. Kurram has been a scene of sectarian violence in recent years.

improvised explosive device, targeting a convoy of foreign diplomats, killed a policeman and injured three others in Pakistan's restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday. The blast triggered through a remote hit the convoy that was travelling to the scenic mountainous Malam Jabba in Swat district from Islamabad. A senior police officer said that all the diplomats were safe. The convoy included diplomats from Russia, Vietnam, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Portugal.

monsoons in northwest Pakistan triggered flash flooding, killing at least 14 people, 11 from the same family, officials said Tuesday.

The World Bank has approved $1 billion for the construction of Pakistan’s biggest Dasu hydropower project, which is being built in the country’s northwest with China’s help

Pakistan's security forces were conducting several raids in the country's volatile northwest, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, when shootouts ensued leaving seven soldiers and 23 militants dead, the army said Monday. The first exchange of fire occurred overnight on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing six militants and two army officers who «embraced martyrdom,» according to a statement by Pakistan's military. A second shootout happened during another security operation on Monday in the district of Tank, leaving 10 militants dead, the statement said, adding that five soldiers and seven militants were also killed during a separate fire exchange in the district of Khyber.

Opposite to Pakistan’s national government approach of not holding “meaningful dialogue” with the banned Pakistani Taliban, Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur of the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has called for negotiations with the terrorist group to maintain lasting peace in the restive area.

Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 49 people across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities in the country's southwest declared a state of emergency. Some deaths occurred when lightning struck farmers harvesting wheat. Rains caused dozens of houses to collapse in the northwest and in eastern Punjab province.

Maryam Nawaz on Friday said that Chinese nationals living in Pakistan get «resentful» when they are asked to follow security protocols, a week after five Chinese engineers were among six killed in a suicide bombing in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Maryam, the daughter of three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who became the first-ever woman chief minister of a province in Pakistan, while addressing her maiden Apex Committee meeting here said «the Chinese living here do not want to follow security discipline». «They are resentful when they are asked to follow security protocols. They don't want to come under any discipline as they fret over it,» she added.

construction on a major dam site in northwestern Pakistan after being provided with extra security, officials said Wednesday, following a deadly attack on Chinese engineers. Power China and the China Gezhouba Group Company had halted work on a pair of dam projects last month in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after a suicide bomber killed five Chinese nationals and a Pakistani driver, causing their van to plunge into a deep ravine.

Authorities in Pakistan say that a suicide bomber has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle in the northwest of the country

Pakistan Suicide Bomb Attack: Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver was killed in a suicide attack in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, according to local media reports. A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into the vehicle carrying the Chinese. This is the third such attack in the last few weeks in Pakistan.

Chinese nationals were killed in an explosion when their convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, a top police officer said. A suicide bomber rammed an explosives laden vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers which was on its way from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Mohammad Ali Gandapur, the regional police chief, told Reuters.

Heavy rains that swept across Pakistan have left at least 29 people dead and 50 others injured, collapsed houses and triggered landslides that blocked roads, particularly in the northwest, authorities said Sunday. About 23 rain-related deaths were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan since Thursday night, the provincial disaster management authority said.

prohibitory orders here in Pakistan's capital as jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party began nationwide protests against alleged rigging and stealing of its mandate in the recent elections. Criticising the outcome of the polls, which saw the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party-backed independent candidates emerging as the largest group by winning over 90 National Assembly seats, the PTI announced holding countrywide «peaceful protests» against what it termed «record-high rigging». The protests began with a march in Wana in South Waziristan of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

₹250 crore gained momentum over the weekend. Siddharth Anand directorial and film managed to collect ₹197 crore net in India within its 18-day run in theatres, according to industry tracker Sacnilk. On Day 18, February 11, the film raked in ₹4.1 crore, as per Sacnilk estimates.

Fighter Box Office Collection Day 16: Siddharth Anand's directorial and Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone starrer film, ‘Fighter’, was released a day before Republic Day, on January 25. The film ‘Fighter’ that was made on a budget of ₹250 crore has been witnessing a steep downfall in its collection at the box Office over the past few days. The film has managed to collect ₹189.31 crore net in India within its 16-day run in theatres, according to industry tracker Sacnilk.