UoP Staff Lock Down Administration Block Over Two Months of Unpaid Salarie
PESHAWAR – The locks went on before the demands went out. Employees at the University of Peshawar shuttered the administration department this week, refusing to let it reopen until two months of unpaid salaries finally show up in their accounts. For the protesting staff, the math has simply stopped working. Two consecutive months without pay […]
Peshawar Is Drowning in Its Own Shopping Bags —And the Monsoon Hasn’t Even Arrived Yet
PESHAWAR – Walk past any drain in Peshawar this week and you’ll see it: a black tangle of plastic bags, half-submerged, going nowhere. That’s the city’s drainage system now — not broken by age, but strangled by shopping bags nobody was supposed to be selling in the first place. The irony is hard to miss. […]
KP Assembly Media Restriction Law Triggers Outrage with Jail Terms, Heavy Fines for Journalists
PESHAWAR—The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly has issued a notification for a controversial new law. This legislative framework imposes strict penalties on journalists and media houses. These punishments include lengthy prison sentences and heavy financial fines. The law targets individuals who criticize the assembly leadership, misreport proceedings, or publish restricted house business. The provincial legislature quietly […]
Peshawar University’s Slow Death: A Nation Too Busy to Notice
PESHAWAR – A drowning man clutches at straws. University of Peshawar’s (UoP) employees are doing exactly that. Teachers wrote to nearly every major leader in the country, laying out the university’s financial collapse in plain terms. Silence answered them. Sources close to the Teachers Association say a separate appeal, addressed directly to the chancellor, vanished […]
The Mirror of Safaid Dheri: How Zaitoon Bano Wrote the Pashtun Woman into History
PESHAWAR—In 1958, a young woman from Safaid Dheri, a village on the outskirts of Peshawar, published a short story titled “Hindara”—The Mirror. It was an unassuming title for what would become a lifetime of creative disruption. Through that narrative, and the decades of fiction that followed, Pashto fiction writer Zaitoon Bano did not offer a […]
KP Police Launch Security Plan, Command Center to Protect Chinese Nationals
PESHAWAR – The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police have established an advanced, integrated security system to protect Chinese citizens and foreign experts. This initiative guarantees foolproof security for foreign nationals operating within the province. As part of this strategy, officials launched the first modern Special Security Unit (SSU) Command and Control Room. Authorities have deployed the first […]
Impacts of Climate Change in Pakistan: PM Shehbaz Orders Emergency Funds for Monsoon Protection
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has declared federal and provincial cooperation vital to protecting the nation from imminent natural disasters. Consequently, he has ordered top ministries to establish immediate safeguards against the accelerating impacts of climate change in Pakistan. Chairing a high-level review meeting focused on monsoon readiness, the Prime Minister highlighted that the country […]
Monsoon Fury in KP: Flash Floods, Lightning Strikes Kill Three, Injure 37
PESHAWAR: A destructive wave of torrential rains, flash floods, lightning strikes, and severe windstorms over the past 24 hours has left at least three people dead and 37 others injured across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), the deceased include two children and a woman, while the storm caused varying […]
Govt Enforces Historic Tax Regime on Conflict-Hit Frontier Regions
PESHAWAR — Decades of tax exemptions have come to an abrupt end as a comprehensive tax regime officially took effect across the Malakand Division and the former tribal districts bordering Afghanistan. The enforcement has triggered widespread anger and threats of mass civil disobedience in a region still reeling from the devastating aftermath of the war […]
KP Faces Dual Climate Crisis: Heatwave Response and GLOF Alert Issued
PESHAWAR – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) currently faces a severe climate crisis. The province deals with an intense heatwave and rising fears of natural disasters. While the Health Department has mobilized emergency medical resources, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has issued a high alert for flooding in the province’s northern belt. Heatwave Response: Emergency Medical […]