Tags : Bannu

Protestors Storm Grid Stations, Restore Power

Enraged protestors took matters into their own hands, storming Bannu and Kurram Garhi grid stations and switching on all feeders, according to Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO). Forced Restoration Protestors restored power to closed feeders, despite warnings from PESCO that this could result in harm to staff working on repair sites. Consequences PESCO spokesperson warned […]Read More

CM Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Summons Apex Committee Meeting

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has called a meeting of the provincial apex committee to discuss the Bannu incident and rising terrorism. Devising a Policy The conference aims to devise a policy for restoring law and order in the province. Provincial Adviser on Information Barrister Saif announced the meeting, emphasizing the need for collective action. Bannu […]Read More

Bilal Pasha, a CSS officer, “commits suicide”

BANNU: According to police on Tuesday, civil servant Bilal Pasha killed himself by self-inflicted gunshot. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Cantt Azmat Khan, Pasha, the chief executive officer of the Bannu Cantonment Board, committed suicide after experiencing mental stress for a few days. The police claim that Pasha pulled the trigger at his […]Read More

As an army convoy attacked Bannu, nine soldiers died

On Thursday, a suicide strike on a military convoy in Bannu resulted in the deaths of nine soldiers. According to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a motorcycle-riding suicide bomber detonated on a convoy in Jani Khel, Bannu. Nine troops, including Naib Subedar Sanober Ali, lost their lives as a result of the […]Read More

In Bannu, Three students die in seminary roof collapse

BANNU: At least three students died and two others were injured when a roof of a seminary came down in the Bannu district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province on Tuesday morning. Rescue workers claim that the Bannu seminary’s roof collapsed near Nala Kashupul, trapping students and teachers beneath the rubble. Also Read: University Holi […]Read More

Pakistan reports the first case of polio in 2023

ISLAMABAD: With Pakistan struggling to eradicate the crippling disease, the first polio case of the year 2023 was confirmed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Bannu district on Friday, the private news channel reported quoting health officials. According to a spokesman for National Ministry for Health, the poliovirus found in a child from Bannu district of Khyber […]Read More

Terrorists assault in Bannu foiled by police

BANNU: Police repulsed an armed attack of the terrorists on a police picket in Kashu Pull, Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), private news channel reported on Tuesday. According to details, terrorists attacked the Kashu Pul police picket in the limits of PS Domel in Bannu. And opened fire at the police personnel. Police returned the fire […]Read More

Bannu police encounter, kills two ‘accused’

Bannu police on Monday claimed to have shot dead two ‘accused’ involved in the attack on a police van in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district.  As per police, the ‘encounter’ took place in Shamooni Khattak area of Bannu, where two ‘accused’ wanted in Bannu police van attack opened fire on the cops. Also Read: Former deputy […]Read More

In Bannu; Policeman dead as hostage situation develops

BANNU: A policeman was martyred while others injured when unidentified armed men opened fire on a police mobile van on Kohat Road in Bannu on Saturday. Also Read: BTL | Bannu Operation | All the details of the The private news channel has learnt that heavy police contingents rushed to the site. After receiving the […]Read More

Bannu CTD police station is overtaken by militants

BANNU: Militants are reported to have seized control of a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in Bannu district last night and took hostages to negotiate with government authorities. According to  multiple media reports, around 25 arrested members of banned terrorist organisations were under arrest and interrogation at the CTD centre when they took the guns […]Read More