A Pakistani nationalist hero who defied the Taliban in Swat Valley and survived more than 10 assassination attempts by the insurgents has died peacefully of liver disease at the age of 89, his family ...

Pakistan faces a growing humanitarian crisis that has the potential to threaten the country's "fundamental stability and security", a senior Western diplomat warned on Tuesday, underscoring growing ...

Even as hundreds of thousands of people stream back to the Swat Valley after months of fighting, one important group is conspicuously absent: the wealthy landowners who fled the Taliban in fear and ...

SWAT DISTRICT, Pakistan, April 30 (UNHCR) - Almost a year after the onset of conflict forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee northern Pakistan's Swat Valley and surrounding areas, most of ...

Red agencies/ districts controlled by the Taliban; purple is de facto control; yellow is under threat. Tensions have arisen over the Swat peace agreement signed last month. The central government said ...

Five years after it collapsed under Taliban rule, the once-thriving silk industry in the Swat valley of northwest Pakistan is still in shreds, leaving thousands without work and entrepreneurs like ...

Ever since Khayal Muhammad's great grandfather built the first home in Chel Deepu along the Bishigram River some 130 years ago, residents in the village in northern Pakistan's Swat Valley considered ...

(RFE/RL) -- Fighting is continuing in Pakistan's Swat Valley between government troops and Taliban militants, raising concerns about the return of some 2 million displaced residents that began this ...

A security guard inspects vehicles as refugees are repatriated from the southern port city of Karachi to Swat after the Pakistani army cleared the area of Taliban militantsREHAN KHAN / EPA This time ...

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Kishwar Begum studied nursing until she apparently decided to take lives, not help save them. Her photograph appears on the front-page of a newspaper identifying her as a ...