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Pakistan Observer
April 13, 2018
The COAS also inaugurated two mega projects in South Waziristan Agency including Agriculture Park at Wana and a Market at Makeen. Both these projects have been executed by Pakistan Army Engineers and both facilities are part of socio-economic uplift programme for FATA region. Agriculture ParkÃâà...
UrduPoint News
April 13, 2018
On the occasion a meeting was also held between the IGFC and Political Agent South Waziristan about making Tanai Check Post a modern model check post. The IGFC while renaming the Tanai Check Post as Wana Istiqbalia (Welcome) directed the quarters concerned to keep open the check postÃâà...
Gandhara
April 12, 2018
In late 2016, authorities demolished Wazir's market in South Waziristan's headquarters, Wana, after a blast killed a military officer. The demolition was carried out under a century-old colonial-era law that empowers the authorities to punish a clan or tribe for the alleged crimes of an individual or any crimesÃâà...
Samaa Web Desk
April 5, 2018
WANA: Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa met the father of Naqeebullah Mehsud who was killed in a “staged” encounter by police in Karachi in January this year. The meeting took place at Makeen in South Waziristan, where the army chief announced two mega projects. The army chiefÃâà...
Daily Times
March 28, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Local administration in the tribal region of South Waziristan has prohibited gatherings, political rallies and processions in Wana, the embattled region, amid warning that no public gathering will be held without prior permission of the administration. The notification quoted by Assistant PoliticalÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 24, 2018
PESHAWAR: FATA Political Alliance South Waziristan chief Arif Wazir was arrested Saturday by the political administration on the charges of staging an anti-state rally on the eve of Pakistan National Day at Wana. According to details, Arif Wazir was picked up by a group of security personnel from his homeÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 24, 2018
WANA: Inspector General of Frontier Corps (IGFC) Major General Abid Latif has said that sacrifices of tribal people of South Waziristan Agency (SWA) and their unflinching support to the armed forces in the elimination of terrorism were praiseworthy. The tribesmen played key role in flushing out terroristsÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 16, 2018
WANA: A tribal elder was killed and six elders sustained injuries when a mortar shell fired from an unknown location struck a jirga convened to settle a mountain ownership dispute between two tribes in Wana in South Waziristan Agency, official sources said. There had been a mountain ownership disputeÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 16, 2018
PESHAWAR: At least three people were killed and 11 others injured when armed tribesmen opened indiscriminate firing on participants of a reconciliatory traditional jirga at Wana, headquarters of South Waziristan Agency on Friday. A leading tribal elder was amongst the killed whereas Naib PoliticalÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 8, 2018
WANA: A special delegation on Thursday visited South Waziristan on behalf of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to finalise arrangements for constructing a college which would be named after Naqeebullah Mahsud. The delegation met with the tribal elders and father of the slain youth MuhammadÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 3, 2018
WANA: While Mahsud tribespeople are protesting for the rights in different parts of the country, their native South Waziristan tribal region has been without a political agent for the last several months, affecting routine administrative work in the tribal region. An official requesting anonymity told The News thatÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
March 2, 2018
(MENAFN - Tribal News Network) WANA, 02 March: The political administration of South Waziristan Agency has started releasing salaries to the personnel of Khasadar ... A few months ago, the Khasadar force personnel had held a protest demonstration against non-payment of salaries in Wana bazaar.
UrduPoint News
February 28, 2018
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Feb, 2018 ):The oath taking ceremony and passing out parade of 134 jawans of Levies Force was held here on Thursday at Wana Camp Parade Ground. Brigadier Aamir was Chief Guest of the occasion while the ceremony among others wasÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 28, 2018
Pakistan's military forces launched an operation to retake South Waziristan, considered the birthplace of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2009, forcing the displacement of more than 600,000 people as they fought pitched battles with fighters from the armed group. The Pakistani Taliban had ruledÃâà...
The Express Tribune
February 28, 2018
Shaukat Wazir, another talented young musician from Wana however believes that Taliban were not the only threat to performers from South Waziristan. “I don't see any difference in the time that the area was under the Taliban and today's situation,” said the 28-year-old former potato farmer. Wazir used toÃâà...
The Siasat Daily
February 23, 2018
Pakistani Muslim boys read the Koran at a madrassa or religious school in Wana, the main town of Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region, 360 km (224 miles) west of capital Islamabad May 18, 2005. Pakistan dismissed on Tuesday as inadequate an apology and retraction by the Newsweek magazine ofÃâà...
The News International (blog)
February 19, 2018
WANA: Tribesmen here on Monday staged a protest against a new condition set by the administration asking ?local residents to submit a copy of their identity cards before making a phone call from a public call office (PCO) in Wana and other parts of South Waziristan Agency. Dozens of tribesmen from theÃâà...
The News International (blog)
February 17, 2018
WANA: A senior army official on Saturday said that checkposts in residential areas would be removed and number of checkposts in other parts of the South Waziristan Agency would be reduced. Speaking at a media briefing here, General Officer Commanding, Wana, Major General Numan Zakria said thatÃâà...
UrduPoint News
February 17, 2018
WANA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Feb, 2018 ):General Officers Commanding (GOC), South Waziristan, Major General Noman Zakria has said that 15 teams have been constituted to remove Improvised Explosive Device (IED) laid by militants in different areas of South Waziristan AgencyÃâà...
ANI News
February 7, 2018
The killing of Idrees sparked anger among his fellow tribesmen in Wana and other parts of South Waziristan Agency. Other tribesmen from Wana, the administrative headquarters of South Waziristan Agency, joined the protest at Dera Ismail Khan as well. The militants who killed Idrees were allegedly theÃâà...
Pakistan Today
February 6, 2018
PESHAWAR: Tribesmen from the Ahmadzai Wazir clan, Wana South Waziristan on Tuesday attacked the pro-government Taliban militant's office in Dera Ismael Khan and set it on fire in protests triggered by a youths killing in the heart of the metropolitan. As a result of the fire, almost all of the Taliban officeÃâà...
DAWN.com
February 6, 2018
DERA ISMAIL KHAN/WANA: Reacting to the killing of a youth from South Waziristan Agency, enraged mob stormed the offices of an alleged militant group and set on fire two compounds and vehicles in Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday, sources said. Family members of the deceased, Idrees Wazir, alleged thatÃâà...
DunyaNews Pakistan
December 31, 1999
Besides the setting up of the Agricultural Park, commercial centres, schools and hospitals have also been constructed in Wanna, South Waziristan's largest town. Inside the Agricultural Park, special processing plants for pine nuts have been installed whereas special cold storage units there can store moreÃâà...
Daily Times
December 31, 1999
The COAS also inaugurated two mega projects in the South Waziristan Agency, including the Agriculture Park at Wana and a Market at Makeen. Both of these projects have been executed by Pakistan Army Engineers and both facilities are part of the socio-economic uplift programme for the FATA region.
The News International (blog)
December 31, 1999
Talking to shopkeepers during his surprise visit to Rustum Bazaar in Wana, he said that eight checkposts had been removed in South Waziristan and more would be gradually reduced with the improvement in the security situation. This was the first time that an IGFC visited the bazaar and met with commonÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
December 31, 1999
... members of Dotani and Karaykhel tribes traded heavy fire on the ownership dispute of a mountain in South Waziristan on Thursday. Official sources said there was a long standing dispute between Dotani and Karaykhel sub-tribes of Wazir tribe of Wana on the ownership of a mountain in Cheenakho areaÃâà...
