SBP Warns of Economic Risks Despite Signs of Stabilisation
By Riaz Hussain : The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has said that although the country’s economy is showing clear signs of stabilisation, the overall outlook remains exposed to domestic and external risks, underscoring the need for sustained policy discipline and deep structural reforms. In its latest bi-annual Monetary Policy Report (MPR), the central bank…
Deepening Trade Rift: Afghanistan Bans Import of Pakistani Medicines
By H. Nawaz Afghan : Afghanistan’s interim government has imposed a complete ban on the import of Pakistani pharmaceutical products, marking a fresh low in Pak-Afghan relations and raising serious concerns over healthcare access for millions of Afghans, while inflicting heavy losses on Pakistan’s pharmaceutical industry. Under the decision, Afghan importers have been given a…
Islamabad Bombing Exposes Gaps in Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Policy
H. Nawaz Afghan | Islamabad, Pakistan : The suicide bombing at an Imam Bargah in Tarlai, a suburb of Pakistan’s federal capital, Islamabad, has once again exposed critical weaknesses in the country’s security strategy. The attack, which killed at least 31 worshippers and wounded more than a hundred others, raises troubling questions about how the…
No Safe Return: The Silent Struggle of Women Facing Displacement in Pakistan’s Tirah Valley
Women carry the hidden cost of decades long uncertainty conflict and displacement inPakistan’s Tirah Valley By Muhammad Younas : TIRAH VALLEY, Pakistan — The wind in the high mountains of Tirah Valley carries morethan cold. It carries the memory of departure, sweeping through empty courtyards andfrozen paths where families once lived. Here, in the borderlands…
Multiple Militant Attacks Across Balochistan; 4 attackers killed, Situation Under Control
Baluchistan: January 31,2026 : Security forces on Tuesday thwarted a series of coordinated militant attacks across several districts of Balochistan, responding swiftly and effectively at all targeted locations, officials said. According to security sources, militants attempted to target a police van on Quetta’s Saryab Road, where a prompt response by police, later reinforced by Frontier…
When Narratives Clash, Families Pay the Price: The Human Cost of Displacement in Tirah Valley
By Muhammad Younas TIRAH VALLEY / BARA — On the dusty roads leading out of Pakistan’s Tirah Valley, the argument over who is responsible for displacement feels distant to the families sleeping inside vehicles, huddled against the cold, and waiting for their names to be called. For them, survival has little to do with narratives….
Between Return and Re-Displacement: Tirah’s Families Trapped in a Cycle of Uncertainty
By Muhammad Younas TIRAH VALLEY / BARA — When Yaseen Khan returned to his village of Donga in Shalobar, Tirah Valley, eight years ago, he believed the worst chapter of his life had ended. “We came back after years of militancy and displacement,” he says. “My father and I tried to rebuild our home and…
The Cold Walk From Tirah: Lives on the Move Between Conflict and Winter
Report By CBN247 : In the high mountains of Tirah Maidan, silence once carried peace. Today, it carries uncertainty. Families are leaving again. As security operations intensify in parts of this remote region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, thousands of residents are moving out of their villages, not by choice but by necessity. For many, this is…
Uprooted Once More: Tirah Valley Families Face Renewed Displacement Amid Uncertainty and Fear
Muhammad Younas TIRAH VALLEY, KHYBER DISTRICT — For residents of Pakistan’s Tirah Valley, displacement has once again become a looming reality, reopening old wounds for families who only recently rebuilt their lives after years of conflict-driven upheaval. Official notices announcing the registration of families for what authorities describe as a “managed displacement” have spread quiet…
Between Peace and Displacement: Tirah Valley’s Unfinished Struggle
CBN Exclusive Sardar Khan keeps a small bag by the door of his stone house in Tirah Valley. It has been there for weeks. Inside are identity cards wrapped in plastic, school certificates belonging to his children, a change of clothes for each family member, and a faded photograph of his late father. The bag…
