Tuesday, July 05, 2011
By Ali Afzal Afzaal & Mushtaq Yusufzai
PARACHINAR/PESHAWAR: Security forces on Monday entered three main strongholds of militants in Kurram Agency and hoisted the national flag on government buildings, which the Taliban fighters had occupied four years ago. Pakistan ...

Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Ali Afzal Afzaal & Iqbal Hussain Iqbal
PARACHINAR/SADDA: Twelve people, nine of them Afghan Taliban fighters, were killed and several others injured in three separate drone attacks in the militant-infested lower Kurram Agency on Monday. The CIA-operated spy planes, ...

Sunday, July 18, 2010
Ali Afzal Afzaal & Iqbal Hussain
PARACHINAR/SADDA: Eighteen people, including seven women, were killed and six others injured when militants attacked a convoy of civilians escorted by security forces near Charkhel in Kurram Agency on Saturday, official and tribal ...

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Iqbal Hussain, Ali Afzal Afzaal & Mushtaq Yusufzai
SADDA/PESHAWAR: US spy planes on Monday carried out the first-ever attack in the Kurram tribal region, killing 26 suspected militants and seriously injuring several others, official sources said. However, senior Taliban ...

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Ali Afzal Afzaal & Javed Afridi
PARACHINAR/PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber rammed a car loaded with explosives into the election office of the Pakistan People’s Party-backed independent candidate in Parachinar on Saturday, leaving 40 people dead and a hundred injured ...

Sunday, April 15, 2007
Ali Afzal Afzaal & Iqbal Hussain
PARACHINAR/SADDA: The authorities on Saturday revised upward the death toll in the sectarian clashes in Kurram Agency to 63 as the situation returned to normalcy in most areas and curfew was relaxed for two and a half hours in ...

Saturday, April 14, 2007
Ali Afzal Afzaal & Iqbal Hussain
PARACHINAR/SADDA: Eight more people were killed in fresh incidents of violence in remote areas of Kurram Agency on Thursday night but the ceasefire in Parachinar, Sadda and other major towns and villages was holding largely due to ...

Friday, April 13, 2007
Ali Afzal Afzaal & Iqbal Hussain
PARACHINAR/SADDA: Guns fell silent in most parts of the volatile Kurram agency on Thursday as a joint Jirga of Sunni and Shia elders convinced the combatants to agree to a ceasefire. There was sporadic exchange of fire between ...

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Ali Afzal Afzaal & Iqbal Hussain
PARACHINAR/SADDA: Another 45 people were killed in sectarian clashes in Kurram agency on Tuesday night and Wednesday as combatants continued to attack each other’s villages with heavy weapons despite warnings of military action by ...