When Pakistani shopkeeper Abdur Rahim's phone rang in mid-October, he was shocked to hear the voice of a senior militant commander demanding protection money from him and his fellow traders in the Swat Valley.
The menacing call was taken seriously (...)
Abdullah Khan, a Pakistani police officer says a bomb blast has killed Mukarram Shah, a local leader of Awami National Party in the northwestern Swat valley.
Khan says the bomb planted near Shah's car exploded Sunday in the village of Banjot. He (...)
Police say militants attacked a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing three police officers and wounding one, according to AP.
Police officer Jahanzeb Khan says the militants attacked the checkpoint in the Karora area of Khyber (...)
About 150 people have been killed by flash floods and bad weather in Pakistan in the last week, with the country's northwest and Baluchistan provinces bearing the brunt of the storms, officials said on Thursday.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in (...)
Police say an explosion near a bus terminal in Pakistan's Swat Valley has wounded at least seven people, according to AP.
Police official Rehmat Khan says the blast went off Thursday around noon in Mingora, the main town in Swat.
The valley was (...)
Police say a bomb has ripped through a busy market area in the main city in Pakistan's Swat Valley, killing at least two people.
Senior police official Qazi Ghulam Farooq says the bomb exploded Saturday in Mingora, the main city in the northwestern (...)
A suicide bomber targeting security forces in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday killed at least 10 people, police said.
The assault near a security check post came a day after a suicide attack on the military killed at least 45 people in the (...)
A suicide bomber killed at least 14 community police recruits Sunday in Pakistan's Swat
Valley, an official said.
The blast outside the main police station in Mingora,
Swat's main town, came one day after the army said it had
destroyed a major (...)
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Pakistani security post in the Swat valley Saturday killing five soldiers, while eight militants were killed in a clash, in the most serious violence in the area for weeks.
The military went on the offensive in (...)
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Pakistani security post in the Swat valley on
Saturday killing five soldiers, while eight militants were
killed in a clash, Reuters reported.
"The bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the
post," (...)
Pakistani authorities are preparing for the return of residents to Swat's main town but decisive victory will only be won when Taleban leaders are dead, an army commander said on Wednesday.
The military offensive to expel the Taleban from (...)
The military lifted curfews Monday in seven towns in the Swat Valley in a further sign
of confidence that it's military offensive against the
Taliban there is making progress, though violence flared
elsewhere.
The order will allow thousands of (...)
Thousands of fearful civilians _ many on foot or donkey-pulled carts _ streamed out of a
conflict-ridden Pakistani valley on Sunday as authorities
lifted a curfew and fighting between the military and the
Taliban eased.
Pakistan has urged (...)
Pakistani planes bombed suspected Taleban positions in their Swat bastion on Friday as hundreds of thousands fled in terror and other trapped residents appealed for a pause in the fighting so they could escape.
The United Nations High Commissioner (...)
Pakistani Taleban have beheaded two government officials in the northwestern Swat Valley in revenge for the killing of two insurgent commanders by security forces, a militant spokesman said on Sunday.
Their bodies were dumped beside a road.
The (...)
Pakistani Taleban are moving into a new area in northern Pakistan, clashing with villagers and police in a mountain valley, police and district officials said on Wednesday.
In a development that will deepen the West's concerns, scores of Taleban (...)
Dozens of gunmen opened fire at a
university in a northwest Pakistan region near the Afghan
border early Wednesday, killing three police officers and a
security guard, authorities said.
The attack occurred in Lower Dir, which borders (...)
Pakistani authorities have released 12 Taliban in a bid to consolidate a pact struck last month with Islamists in the
northwestern Swat valley, a senior government official
said on Sunday.
The Taliban were released on Saturday night after
talks (...)
line cleric sent by Pakistan to talk to the Taleban demanded Sunday that the government create Islamic courts in a northwest region by mid-March, a deadline that could undermine peace talks already alarming the West.
Pakistan agreed to establish (...)
Taleban fighters and Pakistani officials have agreed to a “permanent ceasefire” in the northwestern Swat valley, a senior government official said on Saturday.
Taleban commander Maulana Fazlullah, also known as Mullah Radio because he uses illegal (...)
NATO warned Tuesday that Pakistan risked creating a safe haven for Islamist extremists after it struck a deal to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive in the former tourist haven of Swat.
Criticism of the truce mounted as a hardline (...)
Pakistani artillery
and helicopter gunships killed nine militants in an assault on their hideouts in the restive northwestern Swat valley on Saturday, army officials said.
Security forces also arrested eight militants in the
fighting that (...)
Two Pakistani policemen
were killed in a bomb blast on Saturday in resurgent violence in
the northwestern Swat Valley, police said.
The policemen were heading towards Kabal, a stronghold of
the militants, when their vehicle hit the bomb. Three (...)
Militants burned down a hotel at Pakistan's only ski resort on Thursday as security in a northwestern tourist valley deteriorated despite a month-old peace pact, police said.
“Half of the hotel has been burned down,” said Swat's police chief, Waqif (...)
Pakistani Taleban militants ambushed a van carrying pro-government tribal elders in a northwestern region, killing two tribal leaders and wounding seven others on Tuesday, police said.
The elders were returning to Mingora, the main town in the (...)
