Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Timeline- 2012

Month/Date

Incidents

January 2

A local JUI-F leader and former Nazim Haji Mohammad Azeem Khan was killed and his driver was seriously injured when unidentified assailants attacked his pickup near Naverkhel on Begukhel road in Lakki Marwat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Intelligence agencies stepped up security for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, after intercepted messages from militants revealed they were planning a suicide attack.

January 3

Two persons were killed and 19 others got injuries when a bomb planted in a motorbike at Azam Tower on Arbab Road in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, went off.

Unidentified militants blew up a tower of Sheikh Muhammadi transmission line near Rashakai, disrupting power supply to Peshawar and adjoining areas. Police said the militants planted a powerful bomb to a 500 KV tower near Rashakai Interchange and detonated it with remote control, destroying the tower completely.

Unidentified militants blew up a pylon on Tarbela-Peshawar transmission line at Baba Ji Kallay in Nowshera District.

An anti-terrorism court issued non-bailable arrest warrants for 34 TNSM and Swat Taliban leaders for non-compliance with the court order to appear in a case. The case was registered against TNSM Chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad and others for anti-state and anti-judiciary speeches at the Grassy Ground in Mingora, Swat in 2009. Maulana Sufi Muhammad, his three sons Hayatullah, Rizwanullah and Ziaullah and another TNSM leader Mufti Safiullah appeared in the Swat Anti-Terrorism Court headed by Syed Asim Imam in the case. However, 34 others who had delivered anti-state and anti-judiciary speeches were absent from the court.

A former 'commander' of a local peace committee, Umar Gul, was killed allegedly by TTP militants in Warki village of Tank District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the night. The beheaded body of Umar Gul was found in a nearby canal after he was taken away from his house by three militants.

A Police SI, identified as Zarnosh Khan, and Bawar Khan, the father of a militant 'commander' Tariq were killed when law-enforcement personnel raiding a house in Jungary village of Dubai Adda area in Mardan District came under attack of the hiding militants.

A Police sub inspector was killed during clashes between Security Forces and militants in Bakhshali area of Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while eight militants were arrested.

Militants blow up a Government girls' school in Ibrahimzai area of Charsadda District by triggering an IED. The blast damaged the school's boundary wall, rooms, furniture and documents.

Unknown motorcyclists shot dead a Mehsud tribesman, Sher Mohammad, in Jafarabad Colony in the limits of Dera Township Police Station in Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The dead body of a man was found near the Pehur High Level Canal in the jurisdiction of City Police Station in Topi tehsil of Swabi District.

Hundreds of protesters closed the Kohat-Hangu highway against the killing of a prominent member of SSP. Sources said that Abdul Wahab, a cadre of SSP and Sunni Supreme Council, was abducted from the station area of Hangu on December 31, 2011.

KP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said that students are future of the country and any nation can't compromise on its future. The Chief Minister said that education was an effective weapon for defeating extremism.

KP Minister of Higher Education Qazi Muhammad Asad said that out of USD 200 billion, only one percent was allocated to the education sector per annum.

Unidentified militants blew up a primary school for girls at Shagai village in Razaar tehsil of Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Three houses were damaged in Ali Abbas area when five mortar shells were fired at Hangu city from an unspecified location.

A Hujra of former Union Nazim Johar Mohammad (Advocate) was partially damaged in an explosion in Dallokhel village of Lakki Marwat District.

At least seven LI militants and three SF personnel were killed in an attack on a checkpost in Sarbanda, a suburb of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the late night. Thirteen Police and Frontier Constabulary personnel were injured. According to Police, the LI militants attacked the post after entering the area from Bara in Khyber Agency of FATA. According to FC sources, about 150 militants armed with heavy weapons and rocket launchers attacked the Toot post of Police and FCB. FC trooper Mohammad Yaqoob and Policemen Naveed Nasir and Ahmed Saeed were killed.

Seven people were injured when unidentified militants blew up a CD shop by planting and triggering off an IED at a sewage line near the Ali CD Centre on Nowshera Road in Charsadda District.

The IDPs of Khyber Agency have given a two-week deadline to the Government to meet their demands. Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club in Peshawar, the tribesmen led by PTI FATA Chapter leader Mohammad Iqbal Afridi said that supply of food items to the IDPs had been suspended for the past nine months and despite their repeated appeals no attention had been paid to the issue so far.

The UNHCR asked the Afghan refugees residing in four camps of Lower Dir District to prepare for voluntarily repatriation to their home country by end of this year. In this regard, an office of the UNHCR called Centre for Voluntary Repatriation was inaugurated at Khiaima area of Timergara in Lower Dir.

Speaking on the occasion, the UNHCR provincial head praised Pakistan and Sudan for hosting a large number of Afghan refugees for over 30 years. He said that the refugees had to complete repatriation to their homeland by December 2012.

The Supreme Court ordered the Defence Secretary to verify claims made by military authorities while branding a Swat resident a terrorist. A four-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had taken up a petition of Abdul Ghaffar Khan seeking to reclaim his ancestral farmland and gardens he had left behind while leaving as an internally displaced person when the Operation Rah-e-Rast was launched by SFs against militants in Swat.

A trooper was injured when unidentified militants attacked FCB fort in Girni Sheikhan of Tank District.

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said that the terrorist attacks against them will boost the Police and SFs' resolve to bring about peace instead of affecting it.

Four suicide bombers attacked the DPO's office in Dera Ismail Khan District, killing four people. "Three suicide bombers detonated themselves and one was shot dead by the army," Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Akbar Hoti said. "

Four militants, involved in attack on Riaz Shaheed Police Post in Sarbanda, the suburb of Peshawar, in the night of January 12, were arrested during a search operation in the area. At least seven LI militants and three SF personnel were killed in an attack on a checkpost.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Barrister Masood Kausar said that law and order situation in the province and FATA is far better than that of years ago.

Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the United States talks with the Afghan Taliban won't be result-oriented unless Pakistan and Afghanistan are included in the quest for peace.

A senior tribal reporter, Mukarram Khan Atif, correspondent for Washington-based Pashto language Deewa Radio and a reporter for a private TV channel, was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in Shabqadar area of Charsadda District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

SFs foiled an attempt to smuggle arms from Darra Adamkhel to Peshawar and arrested two carriers at Spina Thana checkpost in Kohat.

Intelligence agencies and SFs denied the custody of Mohammad Hasnain, a missing official of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Communication and Works (C&W) Department.

Ghulam Nabi Khan, counsel for the missing official, accused intelligence agencies and SFs of taking away many people and said the number of missing persons was the highest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Six persons, among them a Police official, were injured when a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up to avoid arrest in Akora Khattak area of Nowshera District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan said that the cases of missing persons was a major issue of fundamental rights and because of their efforts around 700 such persons had been shifted to internment centres so far.

Unidentified militants shot dead an elder from Mohmand Agency of FATA at Bakhshi Pul area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Government nominated focal persons in three Districts of Kohat division in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for ensuring quick response to acts of terrorism and decided to devise a strategy for the repatriation of illegal Afghan refugees.

The Police foiled a terror bid by arresting a suspected terrorist and recovering weapons from a house during a raid in Basyakhel area of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Three German nationals were taken into custody for their alleged involvement in 'suspicious activities' from a house located in University Town of Peshawar. The suspects, who were interviewed after reports they were living in the house on the Park Lane Street illegally, failed to produce documents validating their stay in Pakistan.

Unidentified militants shot dead a person, identified as Haji Noor Mohammad while was going home after offering Maghrib (evening) prayers in Eesakkhe village mosque in Lakki Marwat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Unidentified militants killed one Sahibzada Daud Ahmad, near Kotka Parade in Naurang town.

At least one Policeman was killed while another was injured when unidentified militants opened fire on them in Par Hoti area of Mardan District.

Four Policemen were injured in a roadside bomb blast targeting the Police in Ajab Bagh area of Nowshera District.

The elders of Dallokhel area in Lakki Marwat District and local leaders of JUI-F said that they would continue to cooperate with LEAs and SFs for restoration of durable peace in the area.

The Defense Secretary failed to submit a report in the Supreme Court regarding the alleged occupation of the property of a citizen in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province by SFs. The court directed the District Officer (revenue) to retrieve the occupied property and submit a report on January 27, 2012.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa witnessed a decline in the number of bomb blasts in 2011 compared to 2010, a Peshawar City Police study said. Yet this is hardly a cause to rejoice, as the death toll from the attacks was actually higher than the previous year. According to a comparative study by the capital city police, a total of 34 bomb blasts took place in the province in 2011, killing 400 civilians and 134 police officials, while 37 blasts were witnessed in 2010 which killed 411 civilians and 99 security personnel. However, the capital city showed a marked decline compared to 2010, thanks to the efforts of law enforcement agencies and the cooperation of locals.

A Policeman, identified as Jehangir, was killed when heavily armed militants fired at him on Grid Road, in Dera Ismail Khan District. One of the suspected militants was killed in retaliation. The remaining militants, who had reportedly hid in Qurtaba School, managed to flee. DIG Syed Imtiaz said that the incident was a "sectarian violence."

A house was partially damaged in an IED explosion in Meri Colony of Kohat District. No loss of life was, however, reported.

A chief of the Dera Ismail Khan chapter of Pakistan TTP, Imran Gandapur, of was shot dead during an operation with Police on Grid Station Road in Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Imran Gandapur a former Policeman, involved in the killing of Mian Iftikhar Hussain's son, Mian Arshad Iftikhar.

SFs arrested two militants, identified as Umer Afridi alias Ameer Saib and Jalal Khan alias Bahadar Khan of Khyber Agency, during a search operation in Jalozai camp of Nowshera District.

Police beefed security and started through checking of vehicles and pedestrians in the District, especially in the hilly area of Ziarat Kaka Sahib. The Police were trying to block entry of militants into Nowshera as SFs had launched operation in FR Kohat, sources said.

A 'commander' of AI, identified as Haji Akhunzada, and three others, including his nephew and son-in-law, were killed in a suicide attack in Pakha Ghulam area, on the outskirts of Peshawar. Seven people were also injured, of whom five were reported in critical condition. "The attacker was between 20 and 25 years of age. He targeted Haji Akhunzada, a commander of the AI," SSP Tahir Ayub said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Peshawar Police pointed fingers at LI.

Unidentified militants shot dead the leader of a tribal militiaman, identified as Malik Wazir (70), at Bakhshi Pul area on Charsadda Road in Peshawar. Wazir headed a peace body in Baizai area of Mohmand Agency in FATA.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet expressed confidence in the Federal Government over the Afghan refugees' repatriation issue, asking it to involve the Provincial Government in the future tripartite dialogue on the matter. The Provincial Government had decided to ask centre to involve Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the course of the future tripartite dialogue for the repatriation of Afghan refugees, Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet was told that Kohat Central Jail and Lakki Marwat sub-jail had been handed over to Pakistan Army for conversion into detention centers where under-trail terrorists could be interrogated. Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that after proper identification and classification of the detainees arrested on terrorism charges and the under-trail prisoners would be shifted to detention centers in Kohat and Lakki Marwat Districts.

13 persons, including three PESCO officials were abdcuted by unidenfied militants in Badhber area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Sources said that the linemen of PESCO and labourers were repairing a power pylon at Khushal Khwar area when militants abdcuted them.

SFs blew up the house of two wanted militants, Haider and Usman, who refused to surrender to the law enforcement agencies despite repeated warnings in the Bara Bandai area of Kabal tehsil in Swat District.

Three Policemen were killed when their patrol vehicle was ambushed by unidentified militants near Buland Khel Mod in Shahbaz Khel area of Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A prominent member of Sunni Supreme Council and secretary general of a welfare organisation, Khalid, was killed by unidentified militants on the bypass road in Hangu District.

Unidentified militant abdcuted six elders of Bittani tribe from Omarkhel area of Tank District. Sources said that the six elders were travelling in a car when militants intercepted them at Omarkhel village and whisked them away along with their vehicle. All the six elders including Malak Payo Gul, Malak Multan, Seri Khan, Ghazanmir, Haji Sarwar Khan and Khwaja Mir belong to Nematkhel clan of Bittani tribe.

Two boys were injured after one of them stepped on a landmine during a football match in Akhorwal area of Darra Adamkhel town in the Kohat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Police were put Peshawar on high alert following a Special Branch report regarding a potential suicide attack in the city. The tip-off came two days after the Peshawar Police recovered improvised explosives attached to a motorcycle near the border with Khyber Agency of FATA. According to the report, TTP had grouped with other terror organisations in the area and was planning attacks on Peshawar.

Four persons were killed and several others injured in a car bomb attack on the house of a tribal elder in the Pishtakhara area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Cantonment Circle Superintendent of Police Dr Mian Saeed Ahmed said that about 40 kilograms of explosives had been packed in the car and detonated with remote control.

Unidentified militants blew up the Government Girls' Primary School in Kotla Saeedan area of Dera Ismail Khan District.

Police arrested 25 suspects during a search operation in an Afghan refugees' camp in Gandi Chowk area of Lakki Marwat District.

A man was shot dead and 14 others were injured as two rival sectarian groups clashed during Eid Miladun Nabi (celebration of the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad) in Mansehra town of Manshera District of KP.

The level of corruption in Police departments is evident by studying the number of officers charged for corruption in KP in 2011 which do not include the number of complaints filed against the Police or cases which could not be pursued.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government launched a crackdown on unregistered seminaries in Peshawar and arrested 100 madrassa students belonging to TTP and Afghan Taliban in one such raid on Jamia Zuberia in Yakatut area, Police said.

Mansehra Police booked 12 clerics on charges of instigating people to create law and order during Eid Miladun Nabi procession on February 6, 2012.

The elders of Mathra village in Peshawar expressed grave concern over reports about a possible operation against suspected persons in the area and warned that the local people will strongly react if they are not taken into confidence in this regard.

Authorities at a public sector hospital in Peshawar are perturbed over the manner in which missing persons are brought there by Intelligence Agencies in critical condition and with slim chances of their survival, an official at the hospital said.

According to the latest Annual Status of Education Report 2011, at least 85 per cent of children in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are still enrolled in schools. ASER states that only 15 per cent of children between the ages of five and 16 are currently out of school, out of which 58.7 per cent are girls. The ratio of enrolment stands at 65 per cent for boys and 35 per cent for girls.

The authorities have decided to constitute committees in 59 Union Councils of the Mansehra District to monitor standard of education and implement court's verdict about fee concession to two siblings studying in the same educational institution.

During a public meeting to observe the 37th death anniversary of former Governor Hayat Mohammad Khan in Charsadda District, Chairman of PPP-S Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said that he would launch a movement to restore peace in the region. He said that they would take concrete steps from the platform of Qaumi Ulasi Tehreek (National People's Movement) to ensure peace.

JeI leader and former union council nazim, Dr Matiullah Shah, was abdcuted from his farmhouse in an ambulance from Mangal Bibi area on Rawalpindi road in Kohat town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Mr Shah, who is a dental surgeon, went to his farmhouse in Mangal Bibi area in his car in the morning of February 8, but did not return home in the evening.

ATC awarded life term to a man, Rehmatullah, involved in several abduction cases in Kohat. ATC judge Anwar Hussain awarded life imprisonment to Rehmatullah, resident of Latambar in Karak District. The convict was arrested in July 2010 and charged in abduction cases by the Kohat Police.

JeI moves to Peshawar High Court to challenge legitimise unlimited powers for the military to target suspected terrorists without any evidence. The petition was submitted to the circuit bench (Darul Qaza) of the Peshawar High Court by former Provincial Minister Shah Raz Khan who will be represented by Barrister Ghulam Nabi. The cabinet has approved the draft for the 20th Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2011.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government is likely to seek Federal Government's permission to go after the Afghan nationals residing illegally in the province, an unnamed official sources said. Data compiled by the Home and Tribal Affairs Department revealed that around 400,000 Afghans have been staying in the province without legal documents and that the FIA and Police had not taken action against them under Foreigners Act.

Local Police have begun random checking of Khyber Agency's IDPs and directed people to avoid renting out houses without informing them. Some families residing in the limits of Yakatoot Police Station informed that Police had begun visiting houses of IDPs and they were worried about their children and could not move freely.

One person was killed and 11 others, including four policemen, were injured in a grenade and gunfire attack on a Police van in Razaar tehsil of Swabi District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The attack took place after the conclusion of a public gathering arranged by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

One constable got injured in grenade attack by militants during a search operation in Mando Khel area of Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the night. Sources said militants hurled hand grenades at a police van during a search operation and injured a constable identified as Syed Hussain.

JUI-F leader and MPA Mufti Kifayatullah denied his involvement in a murder committed in Mansehra and described it an attempt to drive him out of politics.

Speaking at a monthly crime meeting Mansehra, District Police Officer Ijaz Ahmad Khan said that a committee of Ulema would be formed soon to work for maintaining sectarian harmony in the Mansehra District.

Suspected TTP militants attacked an oil and gas plant in Karak District. The militants used small and heavy weapons in the attack in Gurgure area of Karak District. The attack caused no damage to the vital installation of the OGDC.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said that the Provincial Government was ready to talk with TTP for the sake of regional peace and future of young generation, but it will only be possible if TTP laid down arms and accepted Government writ. He offered clemency for the blood of innocent people if the TTP abandoned their anti-state acts and pledged to accept writ of the land.

Religious seminaries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa collected PKR 30.46 million from foreign countries/institutions during the last five years, the Ministry of Interior said in a report submitted to the National Assembly.

Replying to a question of MNA Qudsia Arshad regarding foreign funding to religious seminaries, the Home Department of Sindh added that as per report of the Police special branch, some heads of institutions visited Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE to collect funds but detail of the funding could not be collected.

The Government and the people of Swat will not let militants regroup in the valley, said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti. He said this while addressing a 150-member Swat representative jirga during a meeting in Peshawar.

Three persons were killed and nine other injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the office of the DCO in Upper Dir District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said three volunteers of the Qaumi lashkar died in the suicide attack targeting a jirga of the lashkar in the DCO office.

Eight persons including three Policemen were injured when a man hurled a hand grenade at them on Bara Road in suburbs of Peshawar.

Militants tried to target members of a peace committee in Mashokhel area of Badhber with a bomb but no one was injured in the blast.

An official of the Judge Advocate General Branch of the Pakistan Army, Colonel Noor Ahmad, informed the PHC that the youths de-radicalised at military rehabilitation centres following the Swat operation were again joining militant groups after their release.

A power pylon was partially damaged after two bombs fitted to it exploded in Nazar Banda area of Yar Hussain region of Swabi District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The PHC ruled that target killings and street crimes were on the rise due to the Government's issuance of arms licenses on political grounds. It directed the Federal Interior Secretary and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home Secretary to present a report about the licenses issued thus far.

A Policeman was killed and another suffered injury when a vehicle of suspected militants hit them near Pabbi in Nowshera District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Police averted a terrorist attack by recovering 25 kilogrammes of explosive material in a cave at Khwar area of Lower Dir District.

Police arrested two Afghan militants in an hour-long operation Said Shah Banda village in Thall tehsil of Hangu District and recovered a suicide jacket and weapons from their possession.

Police arrested 'commander' Bakht Ravan, an uncle of a high ranking TTP 'commander' Ibn-e-Amin, in the Chaparyal area of Swat District.

The BDS averted a terror attack by defusing a powerful 15-kilogramme bomb on GT Road at Doaba area of Hangu District.

Swat Police arrested a suspected militant, Shaukat Ali, allegedly involved in several terror acts from Khawazakhela village in Swat District.

A single-member Peshawar High Court bench dismissed bail plea of a suspected school bomber Mehraban Khan who is charged with blowing up Aziz Khan Public School in the jurisdiction of Mathra Police Station on the outskirts of Peshawar on September 21, 2010 by an explosive device, reports Dawn.

A low intensity bomb planted in a motorcycle that was parked in the Matani bazaar in Peshawar, exploded. However, no casualty has been reported.

Police officials claim to have averted a terrorist attack by recovering a bomb planted at the Baghdada Bridge in Mardan District.

SFs claimed to have regained control of strategic Tor Chappar area of Darra Adamkhel town in Kohat District during a lengthy operation, launched against militants on January 27, 2012.

The Peshawar High Court ordered the Police to register the FIRs of four missing persons after Security Agencies and the Ministries of Defence and Interior denied picking them up.

The tribal elders from Kurram Agency in FATA during press conference at Peshawar Press Club in Peshawar expressed concern over deteriorating security situation in the tribal region and demanded of the authorities to take proactive steps for maintenance of lasting peace.

At least 15 people, including two children, were killed and 38 injured when in a car bomb attack at bus stand on Peshawar-Kohat Road in Peshawar. The bomb had been detonated by a timed device.

Police claimed to have killed two militants in a shootout following an attack on a Police van that was on routine patrol in the Dagglarra area within the Mithri Police precinct in Peshawar.

At least four Policemen were killed and six others injured when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Police Station on Circular Road in Peshawar.

TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed responsibility for the attack. He said that the attack had been carried out by an affiliated group, the Abdullah Azzam Brigade to avenge the death of one of its leaders, Badar Mansoor, in a United States drone strike on February 9, 2012.

A militant was injured while planting an explosive device in Shaheedabad area on Ring Road under Chamkani Police Station.

A major part of the Government primary school for boys was destroyed in a bomb blast in Khat Killay area of Swabi District while bomb disposal squad defused another homemade device at the site.

Police claimed to foil a terror bid by recovering six hand grenades and a huge quantity of other explosives during a raid from a house owned by one Ikramullah Gandapur in Dera Ismail Khan District.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the latest terrorist attacks in Peshawar were in reprisal for the US drone strikes in FATA.

Unidentified armed militants shot dead a man, identified as Mirban, at his house in Gomal bazaar of Tank District. Mirban's wife Balgees and son were injured.

Unidentified militants attacked Ghouriwala Police Station in Bannu District with three rockets followed by heavy gunfire.

Police foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons from Darra Adamkhel town in Kohat District to down country at the toll plaza near Kohat tunnel and arrested four suspects.

Security Forces demolished the Abbottabad compound of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Leaders of the JeM delivered lectures at the University of Peshawar's campus though the varsity's rules do not permit such gatherings. Maulana Mufti Abdur Rehman and Maulana Hafizullah of the JeM visited the university.

Seven people were killed and 20 others wounded when a bomb planted in a motorcycle exploded after senior ANP leadership left a public meeting in Nowshera District.

Armed militants dressed in military uniforms killed at least 18 Shias, all men, from Gilgit-Baltistan, on the Karakoram Highway in Kohistan District while they were returning in a convoy from a pilgrimage in Iran.

The Jundullah claimed responsibility for the attack. "They were Shias and our Mujahideen shot them dead," said Ahmed Marwat, a purported 'commander'.

Two unidentified armed militants killed two people, including a Chinese woman, identified as Jiang Hua (30) in Jahangirpura Bazaar of Peshawar.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government primary school Mir Aftab Kohtay at Aman Kote village in Swabi District.

A bomb exploded in Suraizai village on the outskirts of Peshawar. However, no loss of life was reported in both the incidents.

Peshawar Police recovered a toy bomb, weighing 15 kilograms, placed in a bag full of hashish near Tata Park in Hayatabad.

Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that militants maintain a significant presence in several parts of Nowshera District and warned that their protectors would not be spared any longer.

Unidentified militants blew up the sub-campus of Abdul Wali Khan University at Palosa area in Charsadda District.

Militants blew up a Government primary school in Dalazak area of Shabqadar tehsil.

At least five people sustained injuries when a rocket fired from Khyber Agency in FATA landed at Ibrahim Market in Hayatabad locality in Peshawar.

An unnamed faction of TTP claimed responsibility for the killing of a Chinese woman on February 28, 2012, saying it was in revenge for China's killing of Muslims in its troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government will adopt a holistic approach to counter extremism by improving economic conditions, creating jobs and promoting sports and culture, said Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain.

The provincial Government announced that it would shortly undertake reconstruction of completely destroyed schools and renovation of partially damaged infrastructure in the militancy-hit southern Districts of the Province.

Unidentified militants shot dead an IB inspector, Bashir Khan (38), in a target killing incident near Abasar Colony on Warsak Road in Peshawar.

Business community and people in Mardan District expressed concern over the wide circulation of fake currency notes of different denominations, which is causing financial loss to them.

A Policeman and a five-year old girl were killed when a suicide bomber attacked the motorcade of former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Sherpao near Kangra village soon after he left the venue of a public meeting in nearby Battagram village of Shabqadar tehsil in Charsadda District.

A suicide attack injured five officers, including a DSP, and badly damaged the vehicle when a teenage suicide bomber struck a Police patrol at Commissionery Bazaar in Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The driver of a Police patrol vehicle was killed in an ambush by unidentified militants at Landi Akhun Ahmad area of Peshawar in the evening.

The residence of Shakeel Afridi, who is arrested over treason charges, has been sealed due to law and order concerns.

The terrorists' bid to blow up a tribe elder's house in Hangu city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was neutralised after occupants spotted a 15 kilograms improvised explosive device on the premises and got it promptly defused by the bomb disposal squad.

SFs recovered a cache of weapons in a search operation in the Chiragali area of Upper Dir District.

Unidentified militants blew up five houses in Dahri Likpani area in the Katlang Police Station jurisdiction of Mardan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Police and locals said the militants had planted explosive material outside the house of a retired employee of the Pakistan Air Force, Ameer Rehman.

Keeping in view the terrorist attacks on Police, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Department decided to upgrade the buildings of Police Stations as per requirements in order to avert the sabotage acts and secure lives of the people.

At least four persons, including two women, were killed and two others injured when unidentified armed assailants opened fire after entering a house in Shaheen town area on University Road in Peshawar.

A boy was killed and three others injured in a remote-controlled bomb blast on the Kohat-Peshawar Road in Kohat District.

A CD market was blown up by an IED planted by unidentified militants on Takkar Road at Takhtbhai Bazaar in Mardan District.

The TTP released a fresh footage of the abducted VC of University of Peshawar, Doctor Ajmal Khan. In the video message, Doctor Khan is seen making an appeal for his recovery.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the Government was ready to accept the genuine demands of the TTP. The Minister said the Government could not accept "unjust demands", adding that conceding at this point would encourage the abductors to 'lift' more people for ransom, bringing the Government under pressure.

Two alleged militants were arrested from the basement of a mosque during an operation in Malgeen area of Lachi tehsil in Kohat District. The arrested militants were identified as Haji Mohammad and Noor Nawaz.

Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court Dost Muhammad Khan said on March 9 that 2012 would be the year of release of missing persons. "No one is above the law and the Constitution," he said in his speech as chief guest at the general body meeting of the PHCBA.

The Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) held a rally in Peshawar, demanding the immediate release of missing persons in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Ismail Darvesh of JUI-F and Jamaatud Dawa leaders also addressed the rally.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in the suburban Badbher area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing 16 persons and injuring 33 others. Darra Adamkhel chapter of TTP claimed responsibility for attack. TTP spokesman Mohammad Afridi said the politician was the target because he had set up a militia to battle against the TTP. "These militias are the front lines for the Pakistan army," the spokesman added.

The death toll of March 11, 2012 Badhber (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) suicide bombing reached to 17 as another injured person, identified as Naveed, succumbed to his injuries.

Police claimed to have foiled a major terror bid by recovering a huge quantity of explosive material from a vehicle parked near a Police check post in Peshawar.

The residents of Battagram District threatened to launch a mass agitation drive if Government didn't expel Afghan refugees from the District.

Darul Qaza Swat, the Circuit Bench of Peshawar High Court in Mingora town of Swat District, granted bail to six accused charged by Police in terrorism and other crimes on surety bonds of PKR 500,000 and PKR 300,000.

Police arrested an Afghan 'hired assassin' from a private medical centre at Dabgari Garden in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and recovered a pistol from his possession.

A minor girl was killed and five people, including four personnel of FCB, were injured in a rocket attack on a Police post at Janay Khwar in Mattani area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A Government primary school for girls was blown up by unidentified militants at Taru area near Pabbi in Nowshera District.

SP-Rural Kalam Khan was killed when a bomb ripped through his car at the Pishtakhara Chowk in Peshawar.

Peshawar SSP Tahir Ayub said that the blast that killed Superintendent of Police (SP) Abdul Kalam Khan, was a suicide attack and the bomber's head had been found at the place.

Police have been put on high alert after an alleged letter from TTP threatened attacks on co-educational schools and non-governmental organisations in Mansehra District.

The Peshawar High Court said that 30% of 'missing' persons are likely to remain with authorities, whereas the rest will be identified and set free. "The matter has seriously been considered," said the Peshawar High Court Chief Justice while hearing the missing persons' cases.

The inquiry commission investigating the US raid on the Abbottabad residence of Osama bin Laden revealed that Russian-made weapons were found in the compound. The weapons were found in a cupboard of Osama bin Laden. According to them, only one casing of a used bullet was found.

The bullet riddle body of a former peace committee member was found in the fields near a tube well in Sheikhabad village in Tank District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Two Government schools for boys were destroyed by explosive devices in Dhoda and Zer Janu villages, which are 15 to 20 kilometres away from Lakki town, in Lakki Marwat District.

A Government high school was destroyed after two bombs went off in Kaddi village of Swabi District.

Militants blew up a primary school for boys in remote area of Kotangi Marchoongi in Kohat District.

The American and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government officials inaugurated a newly built primary school in Torwarsak of the Buner District, displaying the shared commitment of the United States and Pakistan to rebuild what militants destroyed in the province and in the Tribal Areas.

Two watchmen of Government High School for Boys were injured when militants blew up the building the School in Babozai area of Katlang tehsil in Mardan District.

A low-intensity roadside bomb ripped through a suburban locality of Peshawar, Qadirabad.

A trader, Shaikh Allah Nawaz, was abducted from his house in Pathankot area of Tank District when over a dozen assailants wearing army uniforms stormed the house and took him away along with his servant in his car.

The BDS neutralised a terrorism bid by defusing 20 kilogrammes of explosives on a roadside in Sarbanda area of Peshawar.

Militants' bid to blow up a bridge at Darsamand area of Hangu District was thwarted by the bomb disposal squad as they defused a 10 kilograms bomb attached to it.

A middle school was blown up by unidentified militants in Sarok Kallay area of Charsadda District. Two rooms and a veranda of the school were destroyed in the blast.

Elsewhere in the same District, unidentified militants blew up a cellular phone shop in Amirabad village of Umarzai area. Further, a Government school was blown up in the Lawangkhel village in Lakki Marwat District.

A Policeman of the Special Branch, Ali Zar Khan, who was injured in the evening of March 17 when two unidentified assailants opened fire on him at Yar Hussain Bazaar of Peshawar, succumbed to his injuries.

Fearful of a yet another string of terrorist attacks, the Mansehra administration advised owners of CD shops and net cafes to change their line of business. This comes after threats by a self-proclaimed offshoot of the TTP, Hafsa Brigade, to bomb all internet cafes, CD shops, cable TV operators, NGOs and educational institutions offering co-education in the District if they are not shut down.

Unidentified motorcycle borne assailants shot dead one Zakir Ali, chief of Shia Peace Committee, at Shahu Square in Mohallah Sangerh of Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

An alleged cadre of Swat chapter of TTP, Fazal Hadi, stated to be a central character in the flogging incident of a woman in Swat in 2009, was arrested in the evening.

The students and teachers of Islamia College Peshawar (Chartered University) staged a protest demonstration in Peshawar against the Government for its failure to recover Professor Ajmal Khan, the abducted vice-chancellor of the university.

Two Policemen, identified as Hazrat Ali and Hassan, were killed and six others were injured when a bomb planted in a rickshaw exploded on the Ring road bridge in the Garhi Qamardin area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the evening.

Two unidentified assailants shot dead a lady health visitor in the limits of Gomal Police Station in Tank District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The deceased LHV was working with ICRC at Kot Hakeem basic health unit.

The Peshawar High Court directed the NAB, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to conduct an inquiry against the SHO of Hayatabad Police Station suspected of being involved in extortion of money from detainees kept at illegal detention facilities.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth also ordered the Police department to close down all the illegal detention facilities within 10 days.

Police averted a terror bid by defusing a 12-kilogramme bomb in the Darandi Palosa area of Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Unidentified militants blew up a gas pipeline in Matta area of Shabqadar tehsil in Charsadda District.

Proposals to set up a grand peace militia to tackle consistent militant attacks on the outskirts of Peshawar failed after locals expressed strong reservations. Elders of 10 villages bordering the confluence of Khyber Agency, Frontier Regions Peshawar and Kohat gathered at the Provincial Assembly's conference hall to convince the locals to form a grand alliance against militants from various factions, who recently stepped up their attacks.

"The Adezai lashkar and other such militias in the area are creating a lot of problems. Instead of fighting militancy, they were a threat themselves and harassing people in the area," he said on the condition of anonymity.

A soldier and three children were wounded when a military convoy was hit by a roadside bomb near Dan Pul (bridge) checkpost in Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Four persons were killed and two others sustained bullet injuries when unidentified armed militants opened fire at them near Shero Jhangi area on Charsadda Road in Peshawar.

One Policeman sustained injuries when unidentified militants attacked a Police mobile van by detonating an IED near Arbab checkpost in the outskirts of Peshawar.

The border police were recently reinvigorated to stop entry of militants into the Chitral District from Nuristan province of Afghanistan, said Chitral District Coordination Officer Rahmatullah Wazir.

Unidentified assailants shot dead a former DSP, Amanullah Khan, a resident of Karak District, at Kanju Township of Swat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the night.

Three persons sustained injuries when explosive material, planted by unidentified militants, went off near the residence of PPP-S leader Malik Nadeem on Dilazak Road in Faisal Colony of Peshawar.

A gas pipeline was blown up by unidentified militants with a low-intensity bomb near Ring Road on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The military officials have asked people in the border areas of Upper Dir District to keep a vigilant eye on suspected people as militants can launch attacks from Afghanistan. Terrorists could make attempts to sneak into Pakistan and launch attacks as snow had started to melt on the mountains, connecting the two countries, Brigadier Saqib Rashid, the operational commander for the region, told a local jirga. The jirga, held in the border town of Barawal, was attended by about 200 local elders.

The District witnessed cross-border attacks last summer that prompted authorities to deploy troops along the border. In the first attack, carried out in the first week of June 2010, 31 people, including 27 Police and Levies officials were killed. Maulana Fazlullah-led Swat Taliban, flushed out from Swat in a major military operation in 2009 and believed to have regrouped in Kunar Province of Afghanistan, had claimed responsibility for those attacks.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government sacked the surgeon, Doctor Shakeel Afridi, recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden, officials said, amid calls for him to face treason charges. Doctor Shakeel Afridi, who is in custody, was fired on disciplinary grounds by the Government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where bin Laden was killed during a clandestine US raid.

The bid to release a Swiss woman abdcuted in Yemen has suffered a blow after her abductors made excessive demands, including for Osama bin Laden's widows to be freed, tribal chief Ali Abdullah Zibari said. Al Qaeda fighters abducted the woman on March 14 from her home in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, where she had been teaching at a foreign language institute.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government girls' school in Ibrahimzai area of Charsadda District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Kohat City Police failed to find any clue to Doctor Matiullah Shah, who was abducted by unidentified persons in an ambulance from his farmhouse in the limits of Saddar Police Station of Kohat in daytime on February 9.

An explosive device went off in a guest room at the residence of ANP leader Rasta Baaz Khan in the Mamashkhel area of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Intelligence agencies arrested several suspected persons and recovered a suicide jacket during a raid at a house at Peshawar road under Tehalka Police Station area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Half of the terrorism-related stories published in the country's key national newspapers originate from the border region in Pakistan's northwest, says a new study released by a local media development organisation. "Almost 50 percent of terrorism stories come from FATA and KP," says the study, 'How Pakistani Media Reports Terrorism Related Conflict?' The study has been conducted by the Intermedia Pakistan, an Islamabad-based media development organisation which focuses on training, advocacy and research on media issues.

At least 10 IDPs were injured when policemen baton charged panicked IDPs to force them to follow queue. The IDPs belonged to the Zakha Khel tribe of Khyber Agency. This incident took place at a registration point in Jalozai camp in the limits of Nowshera District (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

The TTP claimed responsibility for the abduction of four members of a pro-government militia in Tank District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on March 25. The abducted men have been identified as Gul Muhammad, Mukhtiar, Abdul Wahab and Rehman. Speaking from an undisclosed location, the TTP 'commander' for North Waziristan Agency, Asmatullah Shaheen, said that the four men were abducted from Umer bus terminal.

The Peshawar High Court directed the local Police to close down three illegal detention centres, which were run by a former SHO of Hayatabad Police Station in his area.

On the court order, a senior investigation officer of National Accountability Bureau Col (retired) Hussain Ali appeared and told the court that he had constituted a team for probing the allegations against the SHO of amassing wealth by indulging in illegal activities.

Peshawar High Court directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Police Officer to conduct an inquiry as to why police were extending illegal cooperation and help to those agencies which were not authorised under the law and constitution to pick up citizens.

Peshawar High Court directed the quarters concerned to expedite the process of enlisting the [low profile] category B and C militants after the bench was requested to allow some time for the completion of the list. Earlier, the court had issued directives that militants of the category B and C be identified and set free on strong surety bonds.

The Peshawar High Court summoned the Federal Ministers and Secretaries of Defence, Interior and Law in cases of missing persons, asking them to explain why they had been defending illegal and unconstitutional acts of the intelligence agencies.

The bench observed that in all the habeas corpus petitions in the High Court allegations were leveled against the ISI, MI, FIA and sector commanders of the Intelligence Agencies. It added that it was often alleged that these agencies picked persons from houses without search warrant, detained them in illegal detention centres and tortured them. The chief justice observed that keeping in view the provisions of the constitution regarding fundamental rights, the Government, particularly the Ministries of Defence and Interior, were not supposed to defend illegal acts of these agencies.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain favoured resumption of NATO supply but said there should be no permission to the arms and ammunitions' movement to Afghanistan in NATO containers and that NATO supply should be restored for food items only.

He urged the US to reconsider its policies, especially regarding drone attacks, saying it's badly affecting the US image in the country and the world. The Minister said that the drone technology should be shared with Pakistan for better results against war of terror.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Finance Humayun Khan praised the people of Malakand for bravely fighting the 'war of survival' in the country. He said the matchless sacrifices of the people would be written with golden words in the history.

An alleged LI militant was decapitated and his head displayed on a rooftop as a 'warning' in Sarbanda on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A day after Hazrat Khan, a former LI commander, was killed along with six others by Mangal Bagh's men in Bara of Khyber Agency in FATA, Munsif Ali, believed to be an ardent follower of Bagh's LI, was killed in the village of Bajri.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that the Government's green signal for non-lethal supply to NATO forces in Afghanistan would reduce terrorism and militancy in the country, especially Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Minister said his ANP had suffered a lot in the war against terrorism and forced terrorists to flee from their strongholds. "We have lost around 750 ANP leaders, parliamentarians and workers to terrorism and militancy over four years but didn't yield to our enemy," he said.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Mohammad Akbar Khan Hoti assured the business community of revival of CPLC in order to properly address the issues being faced by people in the province. Speaking at a meeting with members of business community at Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the IGP said that the revival of the CPLC would help in resolution of people's problems in a befitting manner.

An excise inspector, identified as Khaista Mir, was killed when a remote-controlled explosive device exploded outside his residence at Ghani Rehman Qila in Daudzai area in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Hundreds of TTP militants stormed a prison in Bannu town in Bannu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and freed nearly 400 inmates, including one on death row for trying to assassinate former President General Pervez Musharraf. Sources said the attack by around 200 militants was aimed at rescuing Adnan Rashid, a TTP militant who was convicted of an attack on Musharraf. TTP 'spokesman' Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed responsibility for the attack.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said some 384 prisoners escaped the prison, adding that there were "at least 20 dangerous prisoners and some militants", among the escapees.

A student was killed and two others sustained injuries when unidentified assailants threw hand grenade at Iqra Public School in Charganokaly on Charsadda Road in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The BDS neutralised a four-kilogramme bomb at Balarzai village in the limits of Badhaber Police Station in the outskirts of Peshawar.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government removed four senior officials and ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident as more details emerged about the audacity of the attacking militants and utter failure of police to respond.

Mohammad Azam Khan, Provincial Secretary of Home and Tribal Affairs, put the number of escaped prisoners at 384. According to last reports, 88 of them have since returned, most of them voluntarily. A few others were arrested in different areas. According to latest reports, of the 384 escaped inmates, 145 were under-trial, 94 were charged with murder and 30 in narcotics cases and 21 sentenced to death.

A militant 'commander' who helped plan an assault on the Bannu central jail said his group had inside information. "We had maps of the area and we had complete maps and plans of the jail as well," the 'commander', a senior member of the TTP, told Reuters.

A terrorist freed by TTP militants was in touch with the outside world through a mobile phone, Facebook and blogs. Over 380 other prisoners besides Adnan Rashid, who was on death row for an attempt to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, escaped from the Central Jail at Bannu.

Unidentified militants blew up Pakistan International Public School, a private school owned by MPA and lawmaker of ANP, Sikandar Irfan, on Swabi-Jahangira Road in Swabi District.

Intelligence officials said that the intelligence services had warned the Government three months ago about a possible attack on a prison in Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that was raided on April 15, 2012, freeing around 400 prisoners including militants.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government asked Federal Government to place names of 200 escaped prisoners of Bannu jail in the Exit Control List. According to the sources, the Provincial Government sent a list of 200 prisoners to the Federal Government, asking the Government to place the prisoners' name in ECL.

Four persons sustained minor injuries when a van hit a landmine at Shahokhel Lakki Bazaar on Raisan Road in Hangu District in the night.

The educationalists at a seminar organised by Peace Education and Development (PEAD) Foundation in Peshawar said that some contents of the religious studies' textbooks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa about Afghan fighting were overemphasized in a way that could undermine peace and incite violence and therefore, the Government should bring necessary reforms to these books.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US are the major stakeholders in the region and they can guarantee lasting peace in Afghanistan through collective and sincere efforts.

Three policemen were injured when unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade at the Police van during routine patrolling near Mian Karim Baba shrine in Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Dawn telecast an exclusive footage of a high-profile prisoner, Adnan Rashid, who escaped from Bannu Central Prison in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2012, talking with the Taliban. Rashid, who was convicted in an attack on former president Pervez Musharraf, was shown as being welcomed by the Taliban in an area which appears to be somewhere in Pakistan's north-west tribal belt.

The video footage showed Rashid talking in Pashtu with his hosts in these words, "Qari sahib, how are you? How is your health? Are you feeling well?" A jubilant Rashid looking all around from his car's window replied, "Ahmadullah (All praise to Allah) all is well." Have you won your freedom from the prison? Adnan nodding his head again replied "Ahmadullah (All praise to Allah)."

Rashid was in contact with the world outside the prison through his cellular phone, according to sources. He was also in touch with several journalists and used to send them messages through SMS.

District Police Officer Abdul Rashid claimed that they had traced identity of the accused involved in April 19's grenade attack on special Police personnel at Karnal Sher Kallay of Swabi District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in which three Policemen were injured.

A security official was injured in an IED exploded on Tank-Jandola Road near Khirgi village in Tank District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. SFs cordoned off the Khirigi area and started a search operation.

Unidentified assailants opened fire on a car, which was going from Peshawar to Adezai village, killing four persons, including two brothers, in the limits of Mattani Police Station of Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP.

A cab driver, Yousaf, was killed by unidentified assailants in the limit of Badhber Police Station.

A clinic was damaged when two bombs went off in Salmankhel village in the limits of Badhber Police Station.

Militants blew up a primary school building in Peshawar. Police defused another 12-kilogramme bomb planted in the vicinity of the site of the first incident.

Another bomb exploded in a middle school for boys in Dera Ismail Khan. Two rooms of the building were completely destroyed while police diffused the other bomb. No casualties were reported.

143 prisoners who had escaped the Bannu jail are back into the jail, KP Home Secretary Azam Khan said. Khan said that out of 384 prisoners who had fled the jail, 108 had voluntarily returned while 35 others had been captured by law enforcement agencies.

The CM Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that his Government had planned to set up 18 more new degree colleges and 1,000 primary schools, including 700 for girls, in the province next year. The CM said promotion of education was his Government's top priority for being the only way to eliminate terrorism from the society.

An eight-year-old Afghan boy, Israrullah, was killed and two shopkeepers injured after a hand grenade hurled by suspected militants at a FCB checkpost in Bara Qadeem area of Peshawar missed the target.

SFs repulsed an attack by the militants from Afghan side of the border at Pakhtoonbro checkpost in Chitral District. According to SFs sources the militants launched the attack from Zero point side but the personnel of NLI forced them to retreat. During the exchange of fire one NLI trooper and an attacker were injured. The retreating militants managed to take their injured companion with them.

SFs arrested 16 militants during a joint operation in the Shahoo Khel area of Hangu District. For the operation, which lasted several hours, Saiful Drara area bordering Shahoo Khel area was sealed to stop militants from fleeing. SFs recovered two Kalashnikovs, six rifles, one shot gun, two pistols and 170 pound of explosive materials from the arrested militants.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government approved the purchase and immediate installation of cellular phone jammers, walk-through scanner gates and other Security equipment at all prisons in the province to counter attacks like the one that freed 384 inmates at the Bannu Central Jail on April 15.

Three TTP militants and as many members of a peace committee were killed during a clash in Darra Adamkhel area of Kohat District in KP. Sources said that two other members of the peace lashkar, led by Momin Khan Afridi, received injuries when they traded fire with Tariq Afridi group of TTP. One of the militants was also injured in the clash, sources added.

A comedian who poked fun at the TTP's practice of apprehending thieves and meting out summary punishment to them was abducted from Matani, a suburb of Peshawar, while he was entertaining guests at a wedding. Around 20 militants entered the guesthouse where he was performing and abducted him by saying that they "needed an entertainer urgently". "They told people not to panic and that Nisar is being taken away only for a few days. They said he will not be harmed".

Police arrested two fleeing prisoners of Bannu jail from a Karachi-bound passenger bus from Serai Gambila of Lakki Marwat District. Two prisoners were identified as Umar Daraz and his son Noor Daraz. He said that the two had escaped from Bannu jail after militants attacked it on the night of April 14.

The KP Police plan to hand control of four provincial jails to the Army. "We have requested the army to take over four central jails ... in Peshawar, Bannu, Haripur and Dera Ismail Khan ... as we would easily be able to take care of the remaining 18 jails," KP Police Chief Akbar Khan Hoti said.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government set a one-month deadline for illegal Afghan nationals to leave the province or face legal action. District Coordination Officer Siraj Ahmad Khan told a press conference that illegal Afghan nationals should leave the province by May 25 otherwise they would be treated according to the law of the land.

Pakistan, sheltering the largest refugee population since early 1980s, Afghanistan and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had signed a tripartite agreement to legalise stay of registered Afghans till December next. The Government has been issuing such deadlines to illegal Afghans since 2001, but did not implement the same. However, Police had launched a crackdown against Afghan prayer leaders some time ago and deported many of them.

Earlier on April 24, Afghan Deputy Refugees and Repatriation Minister Samad Hami said Afghanistan and Pakistan soon plan to sign an agreement that would let refugees stay in Pakistan until 2017, Afghanistan. The deal would protect refugees from forcible deportation from Pakistan, he said.

A SHO and five other Police officials were injured when their van was hit by a remote-controlled bomb at Sharaopul in Pishkando area of Mardan District.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government girls' school, Daman Matta, in Shabqadar tehsil of Charsadda District.

The apex committee special meeting chaired by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Masood Kausar in Peshawar reviewed the overall law and order situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA besides progress on the ongoing reconstruction and rehabilitation projects in militancy-hit areas.

The Swat operation in-charge Major General Ghulam Qamar said that more security posts have been set up on Pak-Afghan border to stop infiltration of militants from Afghanistan into Swat valley. He said that the law-enforcement agencies had secured 'full control' of the Swat valley and militants' infiltration had now been made impossible. About 139 more former militants were sent to their homes after completion of their rehabilitation at the training centre. The number of such people who had been rehabilitated now stood at 1,040. About 901 militants have already completed their training at the centre and are living a peaceful life in their respective towns now.

A Policeman was killed and another received injury in a bomb blast in Ghari Suhbat Khan area on the suburbs of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. An official of Khazana Police Station said that four Policemen, led by Head Constable Gul Zar Khan, were targeted by suspected militants with a remote controlled explosive device when they were passing near a girl's college in the area.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government girls' school with explosives in Mian Dheri area of Swabi District.

The KP cabinet was informed by Police Department that 97 persons, including 25 Policemen and a soldier of the Frontier Constabulary, were killed in 105 terror attacks during the first quarter of 2012 in KP. Of 331 people wounded in the quarter, 68 were police, Police officials told the KP cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti. Attacks damaged 14 Police vehicles, 4 Police Stations, 21 schools, 2 bridges, 4 electricity towers and 45 private vehicles, Police told the cabinet.

A religious scholar and teacher of Darul Uloom Haqqania, Maulana Naseeb, was found dead on Ring Road in Nowshera town of same District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Police said that Naseeb had been abducted by unidentified people from Taru Jaba area of Nowshera District a few days ago.

Law enforcement agencies arrested a key 'commander' of LI, Hussain alias Hamza, during a raid on a compound in jurisdiction of West Cantonment Police Station of Peshawar.

Police arrested a militant, Qari Atiq, along with his friend during an operation in the Odigram area of Swat District. Sources said that Qari Atiq was wanted to the Police for making provocative speeches and burning of TV sets and CDs.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government primary school with explosives under the Shabqadar Police Station area in Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Police arrested two militants, identified as Ilyas and Akbar Zeb, affiliated with the Maulana Fazlullah faction of TTP, during a raid in Zarakhela area within the jurisdiction of Shamozai Police Station in Swat District.

Police arrested three wanted militants, Azam Khan, Mazeed Khan and Fareed Khan, during a raid in Naryab area of Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

ATC during a proceeding that was held at Central Jail Peshawar indicted chief of TNSM Sufi Muhammad and 19 others accused, including two of his close aides, charged by Khwazakhela Police Station for abducting Policemen and challenging Government's writ in 1995. The court also framed charges against 19 others accused, including key TNSM leaders Maulana Khalid and Maulana Safiullah, in the same case and adjourned hearing until May 15, 2012. The court indicted the accused after their refusal to accept the allegations.

Police foiled a sabotage bid in Hamza Town on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, by defusing a roadside bomb.

Police foiled an attempt of smuggling fake currency from tribal area and arrested the carrier on Indus Highway in Kohat.

In pursuance of the Peshawar High Court orders in various missing person cases, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary has asked the civil administration and Police in the province not to arrest and detain a person and enter private lodgings without proper sanction of law.

The under-construction mausoleum of famous poet and politician Ajmal Khan Khattak in Akora Khattak area of Nowshera District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was blown up and another explosion an hour later injured 12 persons who had gathered at the place. Khattak, a former president of the ANP, died in February 2010. Police said it was widely believed that the explosion was the handiwork of TTP who had earlier blown up shrines and mosques.

A former member of a local peace committee was shot dead and five others injured when unidentified assailants ambushed their vehicle near Khwar in the Gomal Bazar Police Station jurisdiction of Tank District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A cache of weapons voluntarily handed over to SFs by the people of Upper Dir District in April was displayed to the media in Khwazakhela. The weapons - including anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, rocket launchers, mortars and a large quantity of ammunitions - were asked to be handed over to the authorities to avoid the possibility of the weapons falling into the hands of militants.

The Marwat Qaumi Jirga of Lakki Marwat District assured SFs of its continued support and cooperation in restoration of peace and said it and locals and won't let any person or group use their soil for militancy. The jirga met at the Hujra of tribal elder Haji Mohammad Aslam Khan in Issakhel village to discuss security situation in the area.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa IG of Prisons Khalid Abbas told the Peshawar High Court that they would resist any undue pressure from intelligence agencies if they were provided protection by the court. He also told a bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Miftauddin Khan that he had ordered all superintendents of prisons in the province to stop illegal contacts with intelligence agencies.

Hearing several cases of missing persons, the bench fixed May 16 for further hearing while observing that the agencies should stop illegal activities till that date, failing which the court would take drastic steps against them.

Unidentified assailants killed a tribal elder, Malik Dilawar, in Hashtnagri area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

One man was killed and several wounded when around five rockets landed in the Hayatabad area of Peshawar.

Faqirabad Circle DSP Banaras Khan survived a bomb attack near the Ring Road Bridge in Peshawar. A bomb exploded near the Ring Road bridge moments after a Police vehicle with DSP on it passed by it in the morning.

A Policeman was killed and 20 others, including six cops and a woman, were injured when two vans carrying prisoners to Mardan were attacked outside Gulbahar Police Station on GT Road in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Unidentified assailants killed Maulana Syed Mohammad Mohsin Shah, a District leader of a peace jirga lashkar at Jamia Haleemia seminary in Dara Pezo of Lakki Marwat District. Shah was a former JUI-F District chief and was attacked at dawn inside his seminary at Jamia Haleemia. According to the Lakki Marwat DPO Umer Riaz, Shah received several death threats from the TTP soon after taking the responsibility as a head of the peace committee.

Eight people, including a 12-year-old boy, were injured in a remote-controlled bomb near a Police checkpost on Ring Road near the cattle market in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. SP-Rural, Shafiullah Khan said the IED was planted near the checkpost on Ring Road near the cattle market. The attack damaged the wall of checkpost and injured six civilians and two constables.