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Elders demand restoration of ex-FATA's separate status in Pakistan
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Bajaur Agency [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): Expressing their dissatisfaction with the merger of former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA's) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, elders has demanded the restoration of separate status of the region as no visible change was seen in the lives of people
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Pakistan: Black day observed on 3rd anniversary of 'unconstitutional' merg
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], June 1 (ANI): A black day was observed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against the 'unnatural' and 'unconstitutional' merger of erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the province.
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196 people in Pakistan lost lives to violence in first quarter of 2021: Re
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 15 (ANI): Nearly 200 people in Pakistan have lost their lives in Pakistan due to violence in the first quarter of 2021 with 70 per cent of all fatalities reported in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
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UN experts appalled by enforced disappearance of Pak activist Idris Khatta
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 2 (ANI): UN human rights experts have condemned the enforced disappearance of Idris Khattak, a Pakistani human rights defender, calling it an "intolerable attack" on his legitimate work against a range of human rights and minority violations in the Khyber Pakhtunkh
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Daughter of missing Pashtun activist lambasts Pakistan for silencing dissi
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Talia Khattak, daughter of a prominent human rights defender Idris Khattak, has lambasted Pakistan for silencing dissidents.
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Pashtun unity march in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa against Pak military brutalities
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Bannu (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) [Pakistan], Jan 12 (ANI): A massive number of protestors participated in a Pashtun unity march in Bannu of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday against the atrocities inflicted by the military and demanded the formation of a commission to probe the army brutalities in the
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TTP regains ground in Pak's tribal belt after commander's killing, warns p
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan 7 (ANI): The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistan Taliban, has regained its ground in the tribal belt of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after overcoming the challenges arising out of the killing of its key
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Pashtun activist urge Pakistan to stop extra-judicial killings in FATA, Kh
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Nov 6 (ANI): A Pashtun activist and member of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) has urged Pakistan to end the extra-judicial killings of civilians in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region located in the northeastern part of the countr
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With threats to women and children, Pakistani Taliban resurfaces
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 10 (ANI): Despite the Pakistani government's claim of its successes in the tribal regions, the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) remain the prime hideout of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which has announced its resurgence in the area through IED
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2 sub-committees formed to discuss FATA- KP merger
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 24 (ANI): Pakistan's interim government has formed two sub-committees to discuss financial requirements for former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and to expedite the process of its merger with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
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FATA-KP merger exposes Pak duplicity-EFSAS
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Amsterdam [The Netherlands], June 16 (ANI): An Amsterdam-based think tank has said Pakistan's hasty decision to merge the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), exposes both its duplicity and shallowness.
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Pak Senate passes KP-FATA merger bill
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 25 (ANI): The Federally Administered Tribal Areas Reforms Bill that calls for the merger of the ederally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was passed by the Pakistan Senate on Friday by 71 to 5 vote.
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