Monday, May 13, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: No woman candidates contesting elections on general seats from different constituencies of Khyber Pakh-tunkhwa made it to the national or provincial assembly. Almost all the female candidates lost to their male contestants ...

Sunday, May 12, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: As the polling process completed in comparatively conducive environment, the unscheduled electricity outages caused miseries to the polling staff as well as voters at various polling stations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in ...

Thursday, May 09, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: Participants of a reading session have urged revival of the book reading habit that is dying fast and called for encouraging children to visit bookshops and buy collections of their choice. “Book is the best friend to ...

Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
TIMERGARA: Intra-party rifts over awarding tickets and dismal performance during the last five years is hitting the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) hard in Lower Dir where it has been involved in direct contest with Jamaat-e-Islami ...

Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) deputy chief and former senior minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sirajul Haq is facing a tough contest from Awami National Party’s (ANP) Hidayatullah on provincial assembly constituency PK-95 Lower Dir-2. ...

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: Catchy slogans and promises of resolving the lingering energy crisis and restoration of peace top the manifestos of almost all major political parties for the May 11 general election. Various parties have coined new and ...

Saturday, April 27, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: In an unusually lacklustre electioneering this time, various political parties are utilising the services of popular poets in the election campaign to attract the voters. Reciting revolutionary and comic poetry has ...

Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: Caretaker Minister for Sports, Tourism, Archaeology, Museums and Youth Affairs Samin Jan Babar Tuesday said all the historical sites in the province would be preserved and restored to save them from any harm. “The Mughal ...

Saturday, March 30, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: Participants of a coordination and consultation meeting on climate change and Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in northern Pakistan here stressed the need for launching efforts to alleviate losses due to calamities. ...

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: Justice (retd) Tariq Pervez Khan took oath as caretaker chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during a ceremony at the Governor’s House here on Wednesday. Governor Engineer Shaukatullah administered oath to the caretaker ...