Provincial Education Minister of NWFP, Sardar Hussain, has said that the schools in Swat, Lower and Upper Dir and other areas in Malakand division will become functional from the first of August.

Just one week after the Pakistani government agreed to implement sharia, or Islamic law, in the vast Malakand Division, the Taliban are flaunting the peace agreement with the government and pushing ...

MINGORA/BATKHELA, May 6 Forty-seven militants, 15 security personnel and 36 non-combatants were killed and several others wounded on Wednesday in fierce clashes and explosions in the Swat valley and ...

The Taliban have begun to attack security forces in earnest in the lawless district of Swat less than one day after declaring that the peace agreement with the government “practically stands dissolved ...

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said on Wednesday that an earthquake jolted several parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad. The quake, measuring 5.3 magnitude, was recorded in Peshawar ...

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Saturday officials had agreed a "permanent" truce with Taliban fighters in the northwestern Swat valley, but a Taliban commander said its own ceasefire ...

Travelling along the road leading to the Swat valley is a memorable experience. As the narrow dual carriageway snakes around impossibly steep mountain ranges, the breathtaking vista of snow-capped ...

Taliban fighters and Pakistani officials have agreed to a "permanent ceasefire" in the northwestern Swat valley, a senior government official said on Saturday. Around 1,200 people have been killed and ...

Now Ayaz and his family are jammed together with overwhelmed cousins in Malakand Top, south of Swat, part of a vast swarm of refugees from the fighting, largely dependent on the hospitality of friends ...

On April 22, several hundred Taliban fighters moved from their stronghold in the Swat Valley to the neighboring district of Buner, just 60 miles from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Secretary of ...

Malakand is a division consisting of several districts: Swat, Buner, Upper Dir, Lower Dir, and Shangla. All of them saw some military action, with Swat being the center of gravity. The divisional ...