On a sunny afternoon last fall, I took a Chinook helicopter flight to the grounds of a former boarding school in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where I drank...
Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether it is in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, or even in the U.S., war takes it heaviest toll on the poorest. It is a profound mistake to believe that military force is a solid foundation for peace.
Nosheen Abbas | Posted 05.25.2011
They can't even provide us a tent, how will they make our houses? What are we expected to go back to?
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011
MARDAN, Pakistan — Members of a charity banned for its alleged links to the Mumbai terror attack have resurfaced in northwestern Pakistan under ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
MINGORA, Pakistan — Black-turbaned Taliban militants seized government buildings, laid mines and fought security forces Tuesday in the Swat Vall...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
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Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011
Pakistan's president has signed a regulation allowing the Taliban to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, in the country's northwestern Swat valley, a presi...
CNN | Posted 05.25.2011
Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammad has announced he has pulled out of a peace deal in the violence-plagued Swat Valley, saying the government is not ser...
PakTribune | Posted 05.25.2011
Chand Bibi, the young girl who was shown being flogged by the Swat Taliban in a videotape aired on television channels, gave a statement to a Qazi, or...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
Taliban militants in Pakistan's northern Swat Valley region are preventing UN officials from administering the Polio vaccine to hundreds of thousands ...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 05.25.2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Taliban militants are beheading and burning their way through Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, and residents say the in...
Foreign Policy | Posted 05.25.2011