Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)'s former provincial minister from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dr Amjad, and Shahid Ali Khan, the city's mayor, were arrested in Swat, ARY News reported on Wednesday.
Two people were killed after the wall of their house collapsed in Manshera. Meanwhile, a woman was killed and six others were injured in Buner due to a roof collapse. Two people were injured after the roof collapsed in Mardan.
Officials said the victim came to the relevant police station and told them that her real brother, Rehmat and stepbrother, Ahmed, had been assaulting her for long and warned to kill her if she revealed her ordeal to anyone.
At least 11 people have been killed and five were injured as lightning struck in several districts of the Punjab province of Pakistan on Sunday, reported ARY News.
In the second attack on the Sikh community in two consecutive days in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial capital, a victim was shot dead after unidentified armed men opened fire at him, The News International reported.
The security forces in the Dara Adam Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Zafar Khan along with his two group members during an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) on Sunday, Geo News reported.
The residents said that with each passing day, the duration of power load-shedding was being increased. They also alleged that the supply of electricity to several localities in the district was suspended.
On Tuesday afternoon, a 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, and other towns, causing people to flee their homes, Geo News reported.
As many as 28 people were killed and more than 140 injured as heavy rain and thunderstorms hit several parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab on Saturday, Pakistan-based Geo News reported.
The French government has donated EUR 3.5 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) in support of the ongoing flood response for Pakistani women and children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition.
The employees of technical and vocational centres have not received their salaries for four months due to the non-availability of funds, the portal said.
Three terrorists, including two in captivity, on Tuesday, were killed in an alleged gunfight in the hills of Banjot, Mangalwar, Swat, Pakistan Today reported citing the Regional Police Officer (RPO) Malakand Division confirmed.