Over 45 children and teenagers lost their lives due to diphtheria across Pakistan in 2022 while hundreds of suspected cases have been reported from Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, officials say, The News International reported.
Due to a surge in price and shortage of wheat flour, a large number of people, including traders and shopkeepers staged protests here, The News reported on Wednesday.
Due to an increase in the prices of flour, the nanbais (bakers) in the Swabi city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan on Tuesday closed down their Tandoors and staged a strike, according to Dawn.
Khan while speaking at a seminar on terrorism organised by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in Islamabad, said that the PTI government had planned to relocate at least 5,000 TTP fighters and their family members which amount to about 35,000, but the plan did not go through as the provinces
Terrorists carried out a gun and 'missile' attack on a police station in Dera Ismail Khan region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dawn reported, adding that no casualty has been reported in the attack that took place on Sunday.
Imran Khan spoke about the criticism levelled at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for leading peace talks with the TTP, adding that the opposition parties should not "lie to the people."
Tens of thousands spend hours daily to get the subsidized bags of flour that are already short in supply in the market. Chaotic scenes are often witnessed as people gather around vehicles pushing each other as the mini-trucks and vans escorted by armed guards go about distributing the flour.
People on Sunday protested over rising flour and other vital commodity prices in a number of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cities and demanded that the government take immediate action to regulate prices and guarantee the supply of daily-use food products in the province, Dawn reported.
The locals in Balakot town of Pakistan have threatened the authorities to stage protests if not recruited in the region's hydropower project, Dawn reported on Monday.
The prime target of the attacks remained police and security forces in North and South Waziristan, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Dera Ismail Khan districts of the DIK and Bannu division, The News International newspaper reported.
A man, identified as Sharbat Khan, and his son Noshaid Khan, were killed after assailants shot at them in North Waziristan's Datta Khel tehsil on Friday, the Dawn reported, adding that Sharbat's other son, Torab Khan, suffered injuries in the attack.
In its annual report, the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) said Pakistan security forces lost at least 282 personnel during 2022 in attacks that included IED ambushes, suicide attacks, and raids on security posts, mostly in the Pakistan-Afghan border regions.