Taliban Swat Valley

Taliban Fight Back Against Pakistan Offensive

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 10.19.2009 | World


DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...

Pakistan's Intelligence Service Supports Taliban, Say Afghans

Telegraph | Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor | Posted 10.15.2009 | World


The policy adviser to foreign minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, said the British and American governments were fully aware of the ISI's role but lacked ...

Sher Muhammad Qasab, Alleged Pakistan Taliban Commander, Arrested

DAWN.COM | Posted 11.16.2009 | World


ESHAWAR: Pakistan said soldiers Wednesday arrested a third man from a list of most-wanted Taliban commanders in the Swat valley that offered hundreds ...

Pakistani Army Kills 45 Taliban; Border Reopens

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


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

Majority Of Pakistan Swat IDPs Back Home

GroundReport | Posted 09.28.2009 | World


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

Pakistan Military Accused Of Summary Executions After Dozens Of Bodies Found

The Guardian | Mark Tran | Posted 09.25.2009 | World


Pakistan's security forces are under pressure to hold an inquiry after being accused by human rights groups of summarily executing suspected militants...

Hakimullah, Potential Baitullah Mehsud Successor, Phones AP To Say He's Alive

AP | NAHAL TOOSI and KAY JOHNSON | Posted 09.10.2009 | World


PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A barrage of rockets hit a residential area of Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city in a brazen pre-dawn attack Tuesday, k...

Pakistan Anti-Taliban Militias Rise Up After Army Leaves

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 08.30.2009 | World


SULTANWAS, Pakistan — Village leaders in a former Taliban stronghold are rebuilding their own militia to protect the area from militants holding...

Role Of Pakistan's Taliban Offensive In Afghan War May Be Overstated: Analysis

AFP | Posted 07.23.2009 | World


Pakistan's offensive against Taleban militants has won praise from Washington but may bring little benefit to US forces in neighboring Afghanistan, ex...

Pearl Continental Attacked In Peshawar

Rani Singh | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


Rani Singh

There has just been an attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Pakistan. The Marriott-owned building was chosen most likely as part of revenge attack...

Pakistan Refugee Hosts Stretched To The Limit (IMAGES)

World Vision | Posted 07.03.2009 | World


World Vision

* Scroll down for photos By Chris Webster ISLAMABAD -- Poor communities in Pakistan's northwest are hosting up to two million people uprooted by re...

Pakistan Offers Bounty For Swat Leaders

english.aljazeera.net | Posted 06.28.2009 | World


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...

Battleground Lahore: Taliban in the City

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


Shirin Sadeghi

The insurgents that the Pakistani and U.S. forces are battling are various fronts of poor, largely uneducated men doing what their ancestors have done for centuries: defending the Pashtun way.

Pakistani Troops Take On Taliban In Main Swat Town

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 06.23.2009 | World


ISLAMABAD — Pakistani security forces fought street battles with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley's main urban center Saturday, a critical p...

Pakistan Army Vows To Intensify Campaign Against Taliban

Al Jazeera | Posted 06.22.2009 | World


The Pakistani military claims to have surrounded Mingora, the Swat valley's main city, seeking to wrest the area from Taliban fighters....

Pakistan Reclaims Stronghold From Taliban

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 06.20.2009 | World


ISLAMABAD — Pakistani forces killed 80 militants and drove the Taliban from a major urban stronghold on Wednesday, the army said, as U.S. milita...

Pakistani Clerics Support Government Anti-Taliban Offensive

McClatchy | Posted 06.20.2009 | World


Pakistani religious leaders and scholars Tuesday issued a strong denunciation of the tactics of Taliban militants, providing what could be major boost...

Jamaat-ud-Dawa: Banned Group Helping Pakistani Refugees

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 06.14.2009 | World


MARDAN, Pakistan — Members of a charity banned for its alleged links to the Mumbai terror attack have resurfaced in northwestern Pakistan under ...

Taliban, Swat Outlook 'Pretty Bleak' For Pakistani Army

Financial Times | Posted 06.13.2009 | World


Pakistan's fight against the Taliban has a limited chance of success because of the army's inexperience and its refusal to accept help from the west, ...

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

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 06.12.2009 | World


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

Pakistani President Zardari Absence Drawing Fire

FT | Posted 06.12.2009 | World


The absence of Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari from his country at a time when military operations against the Taliban have triggered the bigges...

Young Pakistani Army Officers May Be Defecting To Taliban: CQ

CQ | Posted 06.12.2009 | World


A retired Pakistani general confided a deep worry to a friend in Washington last week: that some young officers in Pakistan's regular army have become...

Pakistani Refugees Reach 1.3 Million In Northwest

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 06.12.2009 | World


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

Pakistan Refugees Number In The Hundreds Of Thousands

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 06.08.2009 | World


MARDAN, Pakistan — Pakistan's army vowed Friday to eliminate militants from a northwestern valley but warned that its under-equipped troops face...

Taliban's Popularity Linked To Perception It Will Lift Pakistanis From Poverty

Huffington Post Contributor | Emi Foulk | Posted 06.07.2009 | World


by Emi Foulk The swelling power of the Taliban in Pakistan - or "Talibanistan," as The Nation so pithily put it - has caused much alarm amongst Ameri...