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1 month ago | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari |Zahid Hussain
KHYBER: Gunfire again erupted on the Pak-Afghan border on Monday evening, with border forces of both countries attacking each other’s positions with heavy artillery and tank fire. Sources at the Torkham border told Dawn that the second round of cross-border fighting erupted when people in the nearby localities were busy offering Ramazan taraweeh prayers with artillery shells dotting the border skies and forcing the remaining residents to flee to safety.
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1 month ago | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari |Jawed Naqvi
• Six security men, two civilians injured; man dies of cardiac arrest as locals forced to flee hail of bullets• Taliban fighter reportedly killed, two wounded in exchange of fireKHYBER: At least eight people, including six troops, sustained minor injuries on Sunday night after Pakistan and Afghan Taliban forces traded fire at the Torkham border, forcing civilians to flee for their lives besides causing one death due to ‘cardiac arrest’.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari
KHYBER: Fresh fruit exporters feared a drastic reduction in the export of kinnow (citrus fruit) to Afghanistan and some Central Asian states in the current season due to imposition of some new export related taxes by the Federal Board of Revenue in the recent past.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari |Zahid Hussain
KHYBER: Armed terrorists, affiliated with various groups, are understood to have gradually moved out of the plains of Tirah valley here, taking refuge in vacant houses in the hilly terrain, as security forces have fortified their positions in key locations of the valley. Sources in the region told Dawn that the situation in most parts of the valley was calm, with no major terror-related incident reported last month.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari
KHYBER: Local government representatives have blasted the provincial government for denying them development funds, and termed it against the very manifesto of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf. Reacting to the allocation of funds to only 51 tehsil out of the total 131 tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, they insisted that getting their share in development funds was their constitutional right, which the provincial government had violated.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari |Saleem Shahid
KHYBER/QUETTA: Four terrorists, including a ‘commander’, were killed during an operation in the Khyber district, the military’s media wing said on Thursday. A statement issued by Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in the Bagh area, on the reported presence of terrorists. Forces engaged the terrorists at their hideout and managed to gun down four of them, it said.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari
KHYBER: Road closures prompted by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s march on Islamabad have disrupted the country’s trade with Afghanistan via Torkham border crossing. Sources at Torkham told Dawn that not a single vehicle with export items made in the Punjab province had reached Peshawar or Torkham due to road blockades since Nov 23 when the federal and Punjab governments closed almost all highways and motorways, leading to Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, by shipping containers.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari
KHYBER: Over a dozen security personnel were martyred in two separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the past 24 hours. Although Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) did not officially confirm the death toll, official sources said that at least eight security personnel were martyred and three injured in fierce gun battles with militants over the weekend in the Tirah valley. The AFP news agency reported on Tuesday that “nine militants” were also killed in the gunfight.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari |Anis Shivani
KHYBER: Amid complaints about a lack of facilities and shortage of essential items, over 1,000 out of the total 2,041 displaced Kukikhel families have returned to the Thor Chappar area of Tirah Valley here since the second phase of their repatriation began on Oct 29, say officials. They, however, insist that most of the returnees went back to Jamrud and Peshawar due to the dilapidated condition of their homes, harsh weather, and acute shortage of essential commodities.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ibrahim Shinwari |Jawed Naqvi
KHYBER: Defying tribal customs, more than 50 enterprising women have started own businesses from their homes in different parts of the militancy-affected Bara tehsil here to ward off any adverse reaction from the local community. Driven by sheer poverty and rising inflation, these tribal women, including some unmarried ones, opened shops to manage household expenses, fund the medical treatment of husbands, and support their children’s education.
