Pakistan Swat Valley

Pakistani Army Kills 45 Taliban; Border Reopens

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide ...

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Majority Of Pakistan Swat IDPs Back Home

GroundReport | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD: Around 90 per cent displaced people, out of the total, due to the operation in Swat, have so far returned to their homes....

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Pakistan's Homeless Displaced By Fighting "Totally Ignored"

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

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They can't even provide us a tent, how will they make our houses? What are we expected to go back to?

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Pakistani Youth Pitch-In To Help Refugees

Nosheen Abbas | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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"I really wouldn't give the government any money for the displaced people from the north....you just don't know where it goes" says Muneeba a young so...

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Trapped residents emerge, seek food in Swat town

AP | INAM UR-REHMAN | Posted 07.01.2009 | World

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MINGORA, Pakistan — People trapped at home for weeks emerged in search of food at barren shops while corpses lay exposed in the Swat Valley's ma...

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Pakistan Swat Valley Operation Destroys Homes, Draws Local Ire

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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SULTANWAS, Pakistan — When Pakistan's army drove the Taliban back from this small northwestern village, it also destroyed much of everything els...

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Pakistan Offers Bounty For Swat Leaders

english.aljazeera.net | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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Pakistan has offered a cash reward of tens of thousands of dollars for the arrest of Maulana Fazlullah, the Islamic religious leader said to be behind...

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Civilians Flee Swat Ahead Of Military Offensive; Pakistan Says 55 Taliban Killed

AP | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

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MINGORA, Pakistan — The Pakistan army readied a major assault to rid the main town in the Swat Valley of entrenched Taliban militants, who the m...

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Pakistan Taliban Stronghold Raid Kills 750 Militants, Leaves 800,000 Homeless

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

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MARDAN, Pakistan — Helicopters dropped Pakistani commandos into a Taliban stronghold in the Swat Valley on Tuesday, pressing ahead with an offen...

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Swat Valley: Pakistanis Flee As Peace Deal Collapses (PHOTOS)

AP | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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MINGORA, Pakistan — Black-turbaned Taliban militants seized government buildings, laid mines and fought security forces Tuesday in the Swat Vall...

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Buner: Pakistani Army Flattens Villages As It Battles Taliban, Claim Fleeing Residents

McClatchy | Saeed Shah | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

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CHINGLAI, Pakistan -- The Pakistani army's assault against Islamic militants in Buner, in northwest Pakistan, is flattening villages, killing civilian...

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Pakistan Taliban Exploit Class Rifts To Gain Power

New York Times | JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small gro...

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Pakistan Taliban Recruit Fighters With Peace Deal Threatened

Bloomberg | Farhan Sharif | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

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Pakistan's Taliban renewed efforts to recruit fighters and supporters in the areas surrounding the northwestern Swat Valley after a peace agreement wi...

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