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DC: BY Salahuddin Salarzai Islamabad.-After long-awaited FATA reforms, now finally the stage of real merger reached,, The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Wednesday notified allocation of provincial assembly seats to former tribal agencies. According to a notification issued by the ECP, the seats were allocated to each tribal district and former Frontier regions according to 6th Population Census 2017. Bajaur and Khyber tribal districts were allocated three seats each, while, Mohmand, Kurram, North and South Waziristan tribal districts were given two seats each in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly. Similarly, Orakzai tribal district and Frontier Regions were allocated one seat each in the provincial assembly.,  Seven districts and 6 frontiers Region have the population of 5.5millions have total registered voters 1.5 million, according to election commission of Pakistan, the election will be conducted on 16 provincial assembly PA seats,  More ...

BY-Salahuddin Salarzai Mir Ali-Several cases of target killing and violence had reported in Tribal district and KPK - in a fresh incident of target killing in North Waziristan tribal district, two persons were shot dead in Mir Ali area on Friday. Official sources said unknown armed men shot dead two persons in Mir Ali sub-division. The district administration has launched the investigation into the incident. The incidents of target killing have increased in Waziristan since the return of the temporarily displaced persons. Recently, the people of North Waziristan had staged a sit-in in protest against increasing incidents of target killing in the tribal district. In a separate incident in Ghulam Khan Tehsil of North Waziristan, one person was killed when two rival groups clashed over a land dispute. The district administration has arrested four persons after the clash and initiated investigations. Last month several cases of target killing occur in Bajaur tribal dist...

The Afghan ambassador Dr. Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal says Afghanistan supports Pashtun Protection moment, PTM and if such a sound against extremism arises from outside Punjab, Sindh or Pakistan, then Kabul will support also Because the Afghan people are tired of extremism. The Afghan ambassador said in a special interview with BBC that "there is a difference between support and Helping, and their country supports PTM, not help. We have neither paid nor guided the PTM. ' The Afghan ambassador said in a special interview With BBC that "there is a difference between support and Help, their country supports PTM, not help. We have neither paid nor guided the PTM.  ' Pakistani military spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor recently alleged in a press conference that thousands of social media Accounts from Afghan soil are busy propagating against Pakistan daily. In response to the question whether the Afghan government will take any action against those accounts, ...

10 PTM activists, including Wazir’s cousin, injured in the attack PakistanToday : At least 10 people were injured and two suspected Taliban militants were killed in an attack on activists of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), including Ali Wazir and his cousin, in Wana, leading to curfew being imposed in the area. The injured were shifted to Agency Headquarter Hospital Wana for medical treatment where they were declared to be out of danger. According to reports, differences between the two parties developed on Saturday when pro-government militant leader Ain Ullah Wazir forcefully snatched caps from PTM activists and set them on fire. Following the incident, Ali Wazir had condemned the act and called for a sit-in protest from Monday. The militants retaliated and attacked the Mirzalam Khan Wazir Market and the nearby petrol pump, owned by Ali Wazir. However, before the attack, they went to Ali Wazir’s home, armed with guns, and asked him to leave the area of quit PTM....