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Pakistan ramps up crackdown on illegal Afghan migrants in Peshawar

Pakistan police confirmed the arrest of a significant number of Afghan nationals lacking legal status & several suspected armed individuals, during targeted operations across the city.

Why was Peshawar called Pushpapura? Returning to Pakistan after 53 years, I got the answer

In 'Lest We Forget', Indira Varma recalls how she traced her past in Peshawar, and how the city had become unrecognisable so many years after Partition.

Ousted PM Imran Khan back on streets, warns he’ll be ‘even more dangerous’

At Peshawar rally, Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan flexes the support he commands among the country's public, and says a new struggle for freedom has begun.

Suicide bomber kills 30, injures dozens in Shia mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan

Bombs went off during Friday prayers; PM Imran Khan orders immediate probe into security breach.

IS-K behind killing of Sikh hakeem in Peshawar. Amarinder Singh calls it ‘brutal murder’

Former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh condemned Satnam Singh’s murder in Peshawar and asked India’s MEA to intervene.

Peshawar’s women polio workers accuse seniors of harassment, threaten to boycott vaccine drive

Female polio workers hold protest, urge heath minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa district to take note of situation that has allegedly led to some of them losing their jobs.

7 dead, 70 injured after huge explosion rips through seminary in Pakistan’s Peshawar

A bag filled with explosive materials was kept close to wall of the seminary by some unknown person which went off, superintendent of police in Peshawar city Waqar Azeem said.

After lawyers, Pakistan elite police squad poses for selfie with killer of blasphemy accused

An image of Peshawar elite police squad with Faisal alias Khalid, who killed blasphemy accused Tahir Ahmad Naseem inside a courtroom last week, is doing the rounds of social media.

Peshawar school massacre victims’ parents move court over mastermind Taliban leader’s escape

Ehsanullah Ehsan, a former spokesperson of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, had masterminded the attack on Peshawar Army Public School and shot at Malala Yousafzai.

On Camera

Ramayana and Mahabharata acts, dance forms breathe life into sculptures: Scholar Kapila Vatsyayan

In March 2012, scholar and art historian Kapila Vatsyayan delivered a speech after receiving the 4th Thalia Prize, explaining the interdependence of different art forms — theatre, dance to music.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.