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Posts Tagged ‘DI Khan’

Conference interruptus

By Chris Cork • Oct 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

My mobile couldn’t get a signal, there was no TV of any description, the nearest internet connection was over a mountain about ten miles away and they don’t get newspapers either. Welcome to the wonderful world of the Peshawar University Summer Campus situated at 7,590’ (so says a painted stone on the corner of one [...]



Waziristan IDP Problems and Hardships

By Maria Sultan • Oct 20th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As the Pakistani security forces advance from three sides into the South Waziristan Agency to strike at the core of the terrorism, the population of the agency leaves their homes and everything and getting displaced to the Dera Ismail Khan, the closest and most accessible region still largely unaffected by the fighting. , and [...]



Murg-e-bar Baitullah Mehsud

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Apr 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Baitullah Mehsud is a monster? invincible? super human? who is he? He is terrorizing the whole region with full liberty and then very leisurely taking “credit” for all the “achievements”. This creep is killing the people (99% Muslims) throughout Pakistan almost weekly, and then he appears on the radio or telephone with the media, takes [...]



D.I Khan : Another Battleground After Swat

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Maulana Sufi Muhammad of the Tanzim Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) is busy in talking with his son-in-law in the Matta area of Swat valley, while fire erupts in the form of deadly suicide attacks in D.I Khan area of NWFP which borders with the tribal region and is one of the most sensitive areas of Pakistan when [...]



Need to Think

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Feb 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


I want to Lodge a Case in Taliban’s Court

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jan 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The Orakzai chapter of the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has established Shariah courts and complaint centres in most parts of the agency, directing people to resolve their disputes in accordance with the Islamic laws.
Sources told The News that following enforcement of Shariah in Mamozai, Akhonkot, Tor Samat, Baghbani Killay, Jabah, Mirkalamkhel, Farid Garhi, Ghaljo, Kundi [...]



Heart of the Wise

By Dawar Naqvi • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
When a whole world is sad on recent Israeli attacks in Gaza, extremist in Pakistan continues bomb blasting.
Today they have done in DI Khan.
This is not done by Israeli or Indian.
They are Muslim Pakistani [...]