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…
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…
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…
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…
A four-day Oxford Pakistan Publishing & Mentoring Workshop, focused on Tackling Climate Change Challenges in Pakistan, was successfully held in Islamabad, bringing together leading academics and emerging scholars from Pakistan and the United Kingdom. The workshop was supported by the British Academy and delivered in collaboration with Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The workshop…
By Waseem Hassan : In a well-intentioned bid to bring fairness to the often opaque world of academic creditand promotions, Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) introduced a researchpublication policy on 5 November 2025. Its centerpiece is a weighted authorship model: for anypaper with more than three authors, 30% of the credit goes to the first…
By Muhammad Younas — Khyber District, Pakistan : The Issue: Trapped by Conflict and Silenced by Poverty In Pakistan’s Khyber District, the war never truly ends; it merely shifts its form and fades from the headlines. The Tirah Valley, once known for its breathtaking hills and fertile fields, now echoes with the grief of families…
By Muhammad Younas and Islam Gul The dusty hills of Khyber have turned silent. Where trucks once rumbled through the Torkham crossing day and night, hundreds of vehicles now stand still in the fading autumn sun. Families sit beside their packed belongings, waiting for a border that refuses to open. What began as a security…
Fazal Aziz Bunairee KABUL: The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has announced the cancellation of its upcoming T20 series against Pakistan, alleging that Afghan cricketers were killed in a recent Pakistani airstrike in Paktika province. According to the ACB, the strike hit the Argun district of Paktika, killing eight people, including three domestic players identified as…
Riaz Hussain Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has recorded its first dengue-related death of the year as health authorities struggle to contain the spread of the mosquito-borne virus across several districts. According to the provincial health department, a 30-year-old resident of Sharifabad, Mardan, identified as Adnan, succumbed to dengue hemorrhagic fever on October 4. He had initially tested…
