News stories by Ashfaq Yusufzai, page 13

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 05 (IPS) - Young schoolgirls seemed undeterred by the attempt to kill Malala Yousafzai, but parents in northern Pakistan are becoming increasingly concerned over their children going to school.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 25 (IPS) - Muslims around the world will soon celebrate Eidul Azha, otherwise known as the ‘feast of the sacrifice’, the second most important festival day on the Islamic calendar.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 22 (IPS) - The increasing numbers of religious schools is being cited as the main reason behind violent protests in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.

PESHAWAR, Oct 12 (IPS) - Shazia Begum, one of three girls injured in the attack on the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai says the Taliban had sought to silence a very influential schoolgirl.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 26 (IPS) - Over thirty thousand children in the remote Tirah area of the Khyber Agency, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Northern Pakistan, have waited four years for protection from polio, a viral disease that is sometimes referred to as ‘infantile paralysis’ due to its crippling effects on children.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 13 (IPS) - Political parties are stepping up opposition to the U.S. drone strikes and a planned operation to cleanse border areas of militants.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 07 (IPS) - Samina Afridi, a lecturer at the University of Peshawar, regrets that down history the leaders of the Pashtun (also Pakhtun) tribes have conspired to keep them away from education and literacy. The Taliban are only the latest example. 

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 20 (IPS) - For the past five years Sharifullah Shah, a local doctor from the conflict-ridden North Waziristan province in Pakistan, has handed over 500 dollars to the Taliban during the month of Ramadan. But this year, he is putting his money straight into the Edhi Welfare Centre, where he knows it will reach those in need.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 14 (IPS) - Measles outbreaks, which have killed at least 100 children in Pakistan’s militancy-hit border areas since May, have prompted calls by experts for better cooperation in territories adjacent to Afghanistan with international immunisation campaigns.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 10 (IPS) - Thousands who fled their homes in the Taliban-led violence over the past three years have now returned to rebuild their lives, and their homes.