Umer Farooq

Jan 15, 2025 | thefridaytimes.com | Umer Farooq

The public discourse might indicate otherwise but the issues of war and peace are never off-focus from Pakistani decision-making processes. Pakistani decision-makers always find themselves dealing with the issues of war and peace. Never a decade passed in our history when Pakistani decision-makers were not stuck in one security situation or another which could ultimately and potentially could have led to a full-fledged war.

Jan 14, 2025 | dawn.com | Umer Farooq

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday constituted a special committee for a detailed discussion on the KP Laws Amendment Bill, 2024, which was returned by Governor Faisal Karim Kundi over objections about the move to equate the chief minister’s advisers and special assistance with the ministers. The development came during a session chaired by Speaker Babar Saleem Swati. The speaker said the governor had returned the bill and wanted it to be reconsidered by the house.

Jan 13, 2025 | dawn.com | Umer Farooq

• COAS meets party leaders and representatives in Peshawar, receives briefing on counter-terror ops• No major operation in KP but IBOs will continue, military tells political leadershipPESHAWAR: The country’s political leadership has asked the military brass to engage with Afghanistan to address Pakistan’s internal security problems.

Jan 12, 2025 | dawn.com | Umer Farooq

PESHAWAR: Nine terrorists were killed in two encounters with security forces in North Waziristan district on Sunday, the military’s media wing said. The terrorists, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), were killed during intelligence-based operations (IBO). Security forces effectively engaged the terrorists’ hideout killing six of them while two others were arrested in the Dosalli area.

Jan 4, 2025 | dawn.com | Umer Farooq |Javid Hussain

• DC, guards injured in Bagan shooting as KP govt says situation is ‘under control’ • President, PM condemn shooting; CM Gandapur seeks report on incident, demands surrender of perpetrators • Trucks loaded with medicine, food stranded as Parachinar residents bemoan delay PESHAWAR/KURRAM: As a fragile peace accord in Kurram district holds amid tense circumstances, a senior government official, along with his security guards, was wounded in a targeted attack in the Bagan area of the tribal...