News stories by Ashfaq Yusufzai, page 10

PESHAWAR, Aug 18 (IPS) - Nervousness permeates the very air of Dera Ismail Khan these days. It has been more than a fortnight since militants attacked a high security prison here in a military-like operation and released about 200 inmates, including Taliban commanders.

PESHAWAR, Aug 09 (IPS) - A new Taliban fashion directive to men has created surprise and drawn opposition. Orders to men to wear the loose traditional dress rather than trousers have been challenged on the grounds that men in the northwest of Pakistan do not wear trousers in the first place.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 24 (IPS) - Pakistanis are no strangers to sports-related violence; in fact, many have come to expect scuffles and conflict, especially following a major cricket match. In the country's northern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), however, cricket has become a tool to promote peace.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 11 (IPS) - Four-year-old Muhammad Jihad is handicapped, and his parents know who to blame: the Taliban.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 28 (IPS) - Women in Pakistan are no strangers to horror. In this country of 176 million, about 90 percent of women have experienced domestic violence; every year, over 1,000 women are murdered in so-called ‘honour killings'. Two years ago, the Thomson Reuters Foundation named Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world for women and girls.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 27 (IPS) - Muhammad Shakoor, 42, calls Pakistan home.

Born in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, he was bundled across the border during the Soviet invasion of his country in 1979 by his family fleeing the chaos of war.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 18 (IPS) - The United States is laying meticulous plans ahead of its 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, but it has clearly overlooked how its continued drones strikes on the tribal areas of neighbouring Pakistan will affect the much-anticipated pullout.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 13 (IPS) - Though the constant hum of unmanned aerial vehicles flying overhead makes a strong case for staying indoors, residents of Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency are emerging in droves from their humble homes, some no bigger than huts constructed from mud and stones.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 03 (IPS) - Muzaffar Shah, a shopkeeper from Kabul, sits in a hospital waiting room, desperate for news. He has travelled nearly 300 km to get to the Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar, capital of northern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, where his wife is now in intensive care.

PESHAWAR, May 27 (IPS) - Peshawar is breathing a little easier. Prime minister designate Nawaz Sharif's offer of talks with the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has rekindled hope for peace in this Pakistan border town.