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Authorities have arrested eight people, including one in Saudi Arabia, in connection with this week's deadly attack on a guest house used by United Nations employees, the Afghan intelligence chief said Saturday. He said those arrested claimed the assailants came from Pakistan's Swat Valley.
— April 2009: The military launches an offensive to clear as many as 5,000 militants from the Swat Valley after the Taliban — who controlled the area — began spilling into a neighboring district just 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Islamabad. After three months of fighting, the military said it had largely cleared the valley and killed more than 1,700 insurgents.
A trio of suicide attackers, including a rare female bomber, set off two blasts outside a police station in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 11 people in the latest bloodshed in an unrelenting wave of terror plaguing the country.
Courts are back in session in Pakistan's Swat Valley after a three-month hiatus because of an army offensive against Taliban militants. How well the judiciary performs may be crucial in ensuring that the insurgents do not return.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives next to a small hotel in northwest Pakistan Friday, damaging shops in a nearby market and killing at least 7 people, police said.
Pakistan's military says one soldier and seven militants have died in a gunbattle in the northwestern Swat Valley, where the army has waged a four-month-old offensive against the Taliban.
Suspected militants opened fire on a vehicle carrying Pakistan's religious affairs minister Wednesday, wounding him and killing his driver in a brazen attack in the heart of the capital.
Nearly three months after Pakistan retook the Swat Valley from the Taliban, bloodied corpses are still turning up on the streets. This time, the victims are suspected militants — and the killers are alleged to be security forces.
A suicide bomber hit a Pakistani security checkpoint Thursday at the main border crossing for convoys ferrying NATO supplies into Afghanistan, killing at least 18 border guards, police said.
The back-to-back arrests of two top Pakistani Taliban members are another blow to a militant network reeling from the apparent killing of its chief in a CIA missile strike and could be a fresh sign of infighting over a possible successor.
The Taliban invaded their school, an explosion damaged it and a Pakistani army offensive forced them to leave it behind.
Police say a bomb has ripped through the parking area at a court in northwest Pakistan, killing two men guarding a Shiite Muslim lawyer and wounding four people.
Pakistan's top court has summoned former President Pervez Musharraf to explain his 2007 firing of several dozen independent-minded judges. Wednesday's court notice allows Musharraf to send a lawyer in his place.
Pakistani troops killed six suspected Taliban fighters near the Swat Valley's main city, the army said Wednesday, underscoring the region's fragile security even as refugees displaced by fighting return home.
Civilians who lived under the Taliban's harsh rule in Pakistan's Swat Valley may soon be recruited to police the region — with preference going to those hit hardest during the militants' two-year campaign of terror, a top official says.
A Taliban faction leader who was seen as the chief rival to the militant group's Pakistani head was fatally shot Tuesday, reportedly by one of his own guards. The attack on Qari Zainuddin appeared to be a sign that divisions within the Taliban have broken into the open as they come under military assault.
Osama bin Laden threatened Americans in a new audio recording aired Wednesday, saying President Barack Obama inflamed hatred toward the U.S. by ordering Pakistan to crack down on militants in Swat Valley and block Islamic law there.
The military started shelling Taliban hide-outs in the Bannu district in Pakistan's northwest Tuesday, a local government official said.
Moabullah recalled dragging the dead in his wheelbarrow for burial behind a girl's school. There were about 30 bodies, he said, many blown apart in fighting between the Pakistan army and Taliban militants in the Swat Valley.
A Pakistani court ordered the release Tuesday of the founder of banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba because there was insufficient evidence to link him to last year's deadly Mumbai attacks. India immediately condemned the ruling.
Pakistan must immediately lift a curfew in the Swat Valley and airlift food, water and medicine to residents trapped by battles between the military and the Taliban or risk a humanitarian catastrophe, Human Rights Watch warned Tuesday.
Troops are encircling Taliban militants in their mountain base as well as the main town in the Swat Valley, a Pakistani general said Friday, as the U.N. appealed for $543 million to ease the suffering of nearly 2 million refugees from the fighting.
Members of a charity banned for its alleged links to the Mumbai terror attack have resurfaced in northwestern Pakistan under a new name, distributing food and medicine Thursday among thousands of refugees from the government's bloody fight against the Taliban.
Key moments in the struggle between Taliban militants and Pakistani authorities for control of the northwestern Swat Valley.
In Pakistan's South Waziristan, hopes that Taliban's exit will bring progressThough villagers tolerate the militants, many of them fellow Mahsud tribesmen, they welcome the Pakistani offensive, hoping it will help bring basic infrastructure to the isolated region.
The American Way of Abandonment When America is about to throw an ally to the wolves, we follow an established ritual. We discover that the man we supported was never really morally fit to be a friend or partner of the United States.
Beating the Odds: Distributing Books in PakistanLate last month, suicide attacks hit Pakistan's International Islamic University in relatively peaceful Islamabad, killing at least six people – another violent event that continues to pull the capital further into the fray.
How Democracy Is Destroying PakistanWill Pakistan, the only Muslim nuclear country, be fragmented as it was done in Iraq? This is the common fear among Pakistanis in view of the forces-United States, Europe and Israel, which turned Iraq and Afghanistan into slaughterhouses, are responsible for the deepening quagmir …
Culture makes a comeback in Swat Before the arrival of the Taliban, the north-western Pakistani valley of Swat was a centre of Pashtun music and culture. But under the militants a ban was imposed on all forms of artistic expression.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Defying the Taliban to get an educationAround the world, millions of children have to go to great lengths to get a decent education. In the fifth dispatch in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Aleem Maqbool reports from Pakistan's Swat Valley, where girls are defying Taliban attempts to stop them going to school.
Pakistan: The South Waziristan MigrationPakistan has been a busy place over the past few weeks.
Another Terror Attack in PakistanAn audacious attack on Pakistan Army's bastion outside capital Islamabad is worrisome. Apparently, it is a revenge act on the part of Taleban who have been on the receiving end from the military.
Blast near Pakistan's Swat valley kills 41Mon, Oct 12 04:40 PM A suspected suicide bomber killed 41 people in an attack on the Pakistani military on Monday as the Taliban claimed responsibility for a weekend raid on the army's headquarters.
Trust quotient needle near zeroBefore we throw caution to the wind and build a new embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan - a la Baghdad - fit for 1,000 employees, let's first acquire a proper understanding of the nature of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. A majority of Pakistanis believe that Sept.
The Case Against a SurgeAt the heart of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for a major surge in troops is the assumption that we are failing in Afghanistan. But are we really? The United States has had one central objective: to deny Al Qaeda the means to reconstitute, train, and plan major terror attacks.
Pakistan to Target Taliban 'Epicenter' PESHAWAR, Pakistan - After fighting peripheral wars against militants for the last several years, the military is poised to open a campaign in coming days against the Taliban's main stronghold in Pakistan's tribal areas, South Waziristan, according to senior military and security …
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan in video beating probeThe BBC's Aleem Maqbool explains the background to the video Pakistan's army has ordered a probe into a video posted on social networking site Facebook that appears to show soldiers abusing Taliban.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Blasts rock north-west PakistanThe Taliban have taken responsibility of the blast in Peshawar. 16 people killed. An earlier blast in Bannu killed 6 people.
MINGORA: After months of successful military offensive against Taliban Militants, owners of local cinemas gather courage to open the doors of their cinema halls to the entertainment starving folk in the violence-hit Swat valley of North Western Pakistan.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Carnage in Pakistan market attackIt was the last Friday of Ramadhan. These Cretins just couldn't let peace be and continued with their sectarian onslaught. I hope the majority of Pakistanis finally realize Wahabi/Salafi/Deobandi or any other Sunni extremists are an internal threat.
Pakistan army kills 45 Taliban; border reopensPakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide bombing on a police station killed 17 cadets, the army said Monday.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan blast 'kills 14 cadets'After 22 guards at the Khyber pass checkpoint were killed by a suicide bomber a few days ago, another strike kills 14 cadets in the Swat Valley at a police base. The suicide bomber was disguised as a recruit. The Taliban are suspected
Obama's WarIn the opening days of June 2009 President Obama placed the finishing touches on his plans for a renewed effort in the war in Afghanistan.
Pakistan Objects to U.S. Plan for Afghan War Pakistan is objecting to expanded American combat operations in neighboring Afghanistan, creating new fissures in the alliance with Washington at a critical juncture when thousands of new American forces are arriving in the region...
US lawmaker highlights urgency for ROZs passageCongressman Chris Van Hollen, chief sponsor of the Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs) legislation, urged the fast-track approval of the preferential trade programme, saying it would strengthen US national security and help Pakistan and Afghanistan offer economic hope as an a …
Christian refugees excluded from government reconstruction fund Christian activists denounce disparity in treatment for victims of the war between the army and the Taliban. Only Muslim families, registered in government centres, receive funding. Christians helped by relatives and friends, because chased from refugee camps and deprived of aid.
[Swat Valley] On a cold night in January, 2008, a group of militants hammered at the door of a popular Pashto dancer, Shabana, in Mingora, a city in the Swat district of Northwestern Pakistan.
Reliving the era of jizyaJizya was conceived as an instrument of truce in the jihad between momins and kafirs. A demand for Rs 60 lakhs in jizya is reported to have been made on the Hindus of Battagram in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province on June 28.
Nuclear Security in Pakistan: Separating Myth From RealityPakistan is passing through an extremely delicate phase in its history. Recent instability in Pakistan, including the Taliban's advance into settled areas, prompted the Pakistani military to undertake large-scale military operations in the Swat Valley.
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