Taliban Swat Valley

13-Year-Old Pakistani Girl Nominated For International Peace Award

The Times of India | Posted 11.21.2011

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A brave girl from Pakistan, who as an 11-year-old wrote about the Taliban banning girls' schools in the picturesque Swat Valley and missing watching h...

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Swat Valley: A Return To Hell

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Begging for Security in Pakistan

Taha Gaya | Posted 05.25.2011

As Albert Einstein famously remarked, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Last week, the UN humanita...

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New Video Shows Taliban Flogging Men In Pakistan

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — Taliban militants flog two men and a teenage boy in a video that has emerged from Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border, sh...

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Taliban Fight Back Against Pakistan Offensive

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Pakistan's Intelligence Service Service Still Support Taliban, Say Afghans

Telegraph | Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 ...

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Recent Pakistan bombings Show Strength Of Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan

True/Slant | Christopher Allbritton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday's attack in Multan may not seem significant to outsiders looking at the steady drumbeat of bombings that have rocked Pakistan. It seems like...

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Pakistan Taliban Leader Sher Muhammad Qasab Arrested

DAWN.COM | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Pakistan Army Kills 45 Taliban; Border Reopens

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 Military Accused Of Summary Executions After Dozens Of Bodies Found

The Guardian | Mark Tran | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

AP | NAHAL TOOSI and KAY JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Pakistan Anti-Taliban Militias Rise Up After Army Leaves

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Pearl Continental Attacked In Peshawar

Rani Singh | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Pakistan Refugee Hosts Stretched To The Limit (IMAGES)

World Vision | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Pakistan Offers Bounty For Swat Leaders

english.aljazeera.net | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Battleground Lahore: Taliban in the City

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Pakistani Troops Take On Taliban In Main Swat Town

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Pakistan Army Vows To Intensify Campaign Against Taliban

Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Pakistan Reclaims Stronghold From Taliban

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Pakistani Clerics Support Government Anti-Taliban Offensive

McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Jamaat-ud-Dawa: Banned Group Helping Pakistani Refugees

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Taliban, Swat Outlook 'Pretty Bleak' For Pakistani Army

Financial Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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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, ...

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Pakistani President Zardari Absence Drawing Fire

FT | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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