Peshawar, Feb 2: Sher Azam Khan, personal security manager of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, was assassinated in his native town of Khalabat in district Haripur of Morth West Frontier Province.

Khan also Finance Secretary of the party's NWFP chapter was going to his home in a car along with members of his family when some unidentified gunmen fired at the car, sources said.

Peshawar, Pakistan  - Peuchar is a little-known place high up in restive Swat valley in Pakistan's part of the Koh Hindu Kush range, but its rugged mountain terrain and dense pine forests make it a perfect hiding place for local Taliban fighters and their occasional al-Qaeda visitors.

Peshawar, Jan 28 : The NWFP Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education, Sardar Hussain Babak, said that it has become difficult for the government to stop Tehrik-I-Taliban Pakistan from torching and bombing girls schools in the restive Swat Valley.

Commenting on destruction of yet another school by Taliban in Odigram, a suburb of Mingora city, Babak said the government could not stop the destruction of schools when the area people took up arms and wore suicide jackets to torch and bomb their own schools.

Peshawar, Pakistan  - When his captors released famous Pashtu comedian Alamzeb Mujahid after a week of horror and humiliation in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's conflict-ridden North West Frontier Province, they gave him the lone choice of abandoning showbiz.

The 40-year-old artist, who has performed in more than 300 dramas on television and in theatre during his long career, is now planning to join a Muslim missionary group called Tablighi Jamaat.

Peshawar, Jan. 26: Following a Talibani threat, transporters in the NWFP have ordered the bus drivers to remove all audio and visual equipment from their vehicles by a fixed deadline.

A general bus stand banner in Peshawar echoes the threat issued by the Taliban, "If any TV or VCR is found in a vehicle after January 25, the owner will be fined 5,000 rupees and the equipment will be seized."