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Posts Tagged ‘LAKKI Marwat’

Sarki Lawagher of Karak: A Den of Kidnappers

By Haris Hashmi • Feb 13th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Most of the people who get kidnapped from Punjab and NWFP end up in the sorrounding hills of Karak area, an area which is still very remote and obscure, though it borders with the restive FATA area and is just adjacent to the troubled Bannu, Kohat, Hangu and Lakki Marwat belt.
It is a matter of [...]



Lakki Marwat Blast and Media Attitude

By Anwar Jalal • Jan 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

With  Karachi blast (28 Dec) all the TV channels  suspended all their  routine  programs and start covering it.  Even since  then it is  one  of the  main subject of many TV channels.
This  compassionate  attitude  on the part of media and  other sections of the society towards the Karachities is all right  .However, shockingly, no worthy [...]



Reflecting the overindulged mindset

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Jun 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The budget revealed the continuing disconnect between the rulers and the ruled despite the advent of civilian rule and apparent democracy. Why else would the government have put even more burden on the poor through growing indirect taxation and actions that will make the basics of survival ever more expensive? The carbon surcharge is going [...]



Namal Technical College Mianwali Inaugurated

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has inaugurated the Namal Technical College near Mianwali.
To read more about it click here.



Namal University Mianwali by Imran Khan

By Ghazala Khan • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

One may disagree with Imran Khan on his political views, and one may sling mud on him over his playboy status of yesteryears, or one may rebuke him over his family issues, but one cannot in his right mind could negate the service Imran Khan has done to this nation in the form of Shaukat [...]



Jirga and Janaza : New Targets of Terrorists

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Mar 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

With in the span of just two days, in some bloody terrorists attacks, more than 150 people have killed in Lakki Marwat and Darra Adam Khel. Half of them died during funeral procession of a killed DSP in Lakki Marwat, and the other half met their fate during a grand tribal jirga in Zarghunkhel [...]



LAKKI Marwat, SWAT DSP Funeral Bomb Blast

By revo • Feb 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Update : More than 100 people have died in the Lakki Marwat DSP Funeral procession, and more than 400 are injured.
Update: SHO Mangora Habib Zaman also died in the Lakki Marwat bomb blast.
In the morning, an attack was carried upon the vehicle of police in Lucky Marwat, in which a DSP Javed Iqbal and three [...]