Tag: bajaur
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PTI leader who was refused party ticket shot dead in Bajaur
In a tragic turn of events, Rehan Zeb Khan, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and independent candidate from NA-8 Bajaur, was fatally shot by unidentified assailants in the Siddiqabad Phatak Bazar area on Wednesday. The district police officer and SHO Rashid Khan have confirmed the news of the PTI leader’s murder. Khan, who was contesting…
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Bomb Kills Five Police From Pakistan Polio Protection Team
A bomb targeting a polio protection team in Bajaur, northwestern Pakistan, on Monday killed at least five police officers, officials said. “A police truck transporting around 25 policemen for anti-polio campaign duties was targeted by an IED (improvised explosive device),” Anwar ul Haq, a senior government official in Bajaur district, told AFP. He said at…
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‘Police took nine-year-old son in raid,’ former PTI MNA
In a startling turn of events, Gul Zafar Khan, a former MNA associated with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has accused Bajaur police of raiding his residence in the Gat Kai area of Mamond tehsil on Wednesday night. He also claimed that police took his nine-year-old son, who reportedly has special needs. Khan took to X(formerly…
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My best friend’s fake wedding: Bajaur man held for hoax of British girl marrying his friend
In a bizarre turn of events, a man from Bajaur district was arrested by local police for making and spreading a fake Facebook post claiming his best friend had married a British woman. Muhammad Gulab posted a fake picture of a woman, claiming that Ela from Britain had travelled to the Bajaur district to marry…