* Swat offensive will spark Taliban retaliation elsewhere * Punjab and Sindh provinces seen as susceptible areas * Stronger Pakistan police crucial to counter-insurgency By Luke Baker LONDON, May 12 ...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan says it is close to beating the Taliban in the Swat Valley, but battlefield success alone does not equal victory: Militant commanders are still at large, local governments and ...

* Karate chops and kicks * Resilient Taliban * Gradual withdrawal of military By Michael Georgy LEBAT, Pakistan, March 24 (Reuters) - Swat Valley community policemen show off martial arts skills as ...

MARDAN, Pakistan, August 20 (UNHCR) - He misses his beautiful Swat valley, but 56-year-old Anwar* won't move back yet because he doesn't want to risk the safety of this family. "I don't know what is ...

Hundreds of residents in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and Orakzai tribal district rallied to condemn a newly announced military operation by the federal government, with one movement calling for a ...

About a dozen foreign diplomats are safe after a police vehicle escorting them to a business meeting in the Swat district in northwestern Pakistan hit a land mine on September 22, killing one officer ...

ISLAMABAD -- The Taliban have fled the Pakistani army's advance on the main town in the Swat Valley, delivering the military a strategic prize in its offensive against militants in the country's ...

Earthquake today: An earthquake of 4.7 magnitude on the Richter scale struck Pakistan again, this time in the Swat district. The jolts were felt on Saturday, Pakistan-based ARY News reported.