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Posts Tagged ‘peshawar’

Desensitised

By Chris Cork • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

It was an hour or so later that I came to realise the import of what I had said. There was a conversation with a colleague about the stream of bombings that have hit Peshawar and how we comment on them in the press. We were trying to decide what we should write about a [...]



Doing Business in Peshawar

By Mushtaq Ahmad • Nov 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In Pakistan, almost everyone is aware of the famous Bara markets and the bazaars of Peshawar. People from all over Pakistan came rushing towards the Bara markets and the Peshawar to buy smuggled electronics things, cutlery, and other daily life items.
The food of Peshawar was also relished by Pakistanis. People used to return to Peshawar [...]



Salam to NWFP

By Ali Yar Khan • Nov 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Our army is fighting the terrorists and the terrorists have the advantage to appear, attack and disappear from anywhere, unlike conventional warfare where the whereabouts of the enemy are known. Ironically, due to the negligency and lack of vision on the part of our army and the government, the terrorists have been fostering in this [...]



PTCL Entertainment at PTCL Buzz

By Sumaira Bajwa • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Misc

PTCL has become the first company in Pakistan to provide Broadband services in over 100 cities across the country, whereas before PTCL’s entry into the Broadband [...]



US Occupation of Pakistan: Phase one is complete

By A Khokar • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistanis are watching it happen in the streets of Islamabad. The recurring nightmare has become a grim reality here that after watching last 8 years the horrors of the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and neighbouring Afghanistan, the exterminators and executioners of “war on terror” have finally arrived in The Land of the Pure—-Pakistan. [...]



An Incident of Highly Obnoxious Behavior at Dara Adam Khel Checkpost

By Guest Blogger • Jul 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The event took place  in a sequence   mentioned  as  under
(a)  I On 13 June  2009  was  coming   in a public  transport  coach from  Karak  to Peshawar
(b) At  about 17000 hrs, when we  reached  at Dara Adam Khel diversion( Kohat- Peshawar Road  ) we  the  said  coachers stopped for   security check up
(c) During  the  process of [...]



Letter from a Reader

By Guest Blogger • Jul 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The checking of vehicle at  check points near  dare Adam khel ( Peshawar Kohat  Road is  no doubt an  indispensable arrangement  for the sake  of security  and prevention of  terrorism.  However it is often observed  that  some security personal ( both from Army and FC) are so offensive  and humiliating in their dealing and  behavior [...]



Load shedding or Masochism

By Anwar Jalal • Jul 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Load shedding is a greatest crisis going on across the country .However in some areas load shedding time is unscheduled as well as too long. while in some areas there is such type of load shedding which can not be called load shedding but totally a twaddle. One such locality is the civil residential area [...]



Peshawar Under Attack

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jun 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s easy, easy like wind for the terrorists to get mix up in any city of NWFP especially in the Peshawar. Afghanis, Tajiks, Uzbeks and tribal militants are just another Pukhtoon look-alike and they are exploiting that niche. Terrorists are trying to exert pressure on the government and trying to take the war from Swat, [...]



Peshawar Girl Kidnapped and Sold to Soldier

By Amna Gilani • May 7th, 2009 • Category: Misc

A gang of kidnappers, picking up young girls from parts of Peshawar and Nowshera, has sold a 14-year-old girl of Jalozai village to a law-enforcer in Rajanpur after she was abducted while on way to school in February last year.
A number of females went missing from parts of Peshawar and Nowshera during the past months [...]