PESHAWAR – A new case of wild poliovirus has been confirmed in Shams Khel, Bannu, raising Pakistan’s total polio count for 2025 to 12. Health officials confirmed the infected child belongs to an area known as southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s most polio-vulnerable zone. This is the sixth case reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) this year. Officials […]
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Nine Indian-backed militants killed in KP operations, two soldiers embrace martyrdom
RAWALPINDI – Pakistan’s security forces killed nine militants linked to the Indian-sponsored group “Fitna Al Khwarij” during multiple intelligence-based operations (IBOs) across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on May 17 and 18, 2024. The operations, carried out in Lakki Marwat, Bannu, and North Waziristan, were part of a broader effort to eliminate terrorist threats in the region. In […]
Gunmen kill cop in KP’s Bannu: police
A policeman was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the limits of the Mandan police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Tuesday morning. Khanzala Quraishi, spokesperson for the Bannu regional police officer, told the media: “Police Constable Khanzeb was on his way to duty on a motorcycle when he was intercepted and targeted by […]
Three CTD officials martyred in Bannu terrorist attack
Three personnel of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) were martyred and five others injured in two separate terrorist incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa late Wednesday night. The most serious attack occurred in Bannu’s Domel area, where armed assailants ambushed CTD officers on Company Road, killing three and injuring two. Three civilians also sustained injuries during the crossfire. […]
Normalcy returns to Bannu
BANNU: Life returned to normalcy in Bannu city on Wednesday with internet services restored, main roads opened for traffic, and commercial activities fully resumed. After a successful 25-minute military operation against the terrorists besieging the compound of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) here on Tuesday, security clearance was given. According to the district administration officials, […]
Bannu attack: Talks with TTP underway in Afghanistan to solve issue
Following a terrorist attack on the Counter-Terrorism Department’s (CTD) compound in Bannu, talks between Pakistani officials and the leadership of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are underway in Afghanistan, confirmed Mohammad Ali Saif, spokesperson of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, on Monday. As per a foreign news agency, Pakistani authorities opened talks to try to resolve a stand-off […]
Tenth poliovirus sample collected from Bannu, total 32 cases
ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Polio Laboratory has confirmed the detection of Type-1 Wild Poliovirus (WPV1) from an environmental sample collected from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district this month, making it the 10th such such collected from the area this year. The latest sample means that the total number of positive environmental samples […]
1,64,000 children to be vaccinated in North Waziristan, Bannu
PESHAWAR: More than 1,64,000 children under five years of age would be vaccinated against crippling polio disease in North Waziristan and Bannu districts. Following a report of a polio case in North Waziristan, a two days special anti-polio campaign was started in North Waziristan and Bannu district on Thursday where 1,64,000 children under five […]
Bilawal condemns terrorist attack on Akram Durrani’s convoy in Bannu
LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned terrorist bombing on the convoy of JUI-F leader Akram Khan Durrani near Bannu and stressed for adequate security to the contesting candidates in the wake of growing terrorist threats. In a statement, the PPP Chairman expressed deep grief and sorrow over the martyrdom […]
Khan to compete with 100 year old lady from Bannu in general elections 2018
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan will be contesting elections against 100 year old Hazrat Bibi from Bannu. The elderly lady will be competing against PTI leader Khan in the upcoming general elections from NA-35 Bannu. Hazrat Bibi has submitted her nomination papers for NA-35 and PK-89 as an independent candidate. The elderly woman […]