Local vigilantes allied to Pakistani soldiers on Thursday claimed to have killed at least 167 militants in two months.
The Taliban on Thursday denied claims that Maulana Fazlullah, architect of a brutal uprising in Pakistan’s Swat valley, was wounded.
Pakistani troops on Monday pressed their offensive against the Taliban in the northwest Swat district, closing in on a key town.
Islamic courts have started work in Pakistan’s Swat valley under a controversial deal that the government hopes will end two years of bitter fighting.
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/ 16 February 2009
The government and Islamic hardliners on Monday signed an agreement to enforce sharia law in the northwestern Swat valley, said a provincial minister.
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/ 29 December 2008
The death toll from a suicide car bombing at a polling station in northwest Pakistan has risen to 41, police said Monday.
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/ 21 November 2007
More than 40 people have been killed in two days of fighting in a north-west Pakistani valley as troops seek to wipe out militants trying to enforce Taliban-style rule, the military and witnesses said on Wednesday. Major Amjad Iqbal, an army spokesperson, said 17 militants were killed in Swat valley’s Shangla district in gun battles overnight.