Warplanes struck a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud on Saturday in retaliation for the killing of an anti-Taliban cleric.
A bomb blast killed about 40 worshippers attending Friday prayers at a mosque in a restive area of north-west Pakistan.
Pakistan’s military said on Tuesday they were locked in fierce street battles with Taliban fighters in the north-west of the country.
Pakistani authorities temporarily lifted a curfew on Friday to enable thousands of people to flee the fighting in the militant bastion of Swat.
Warnings of refugee crisis in Pakistan with 1,3-million on the run as minister pledges to continue fight until ”the last” militant is killed.
Pakistan’s military ordered people out of parts of the Swat valley on Sunday, temporarily relaxing a curfew to enable civilians to flee an offensive.
Pakistan steps up offensive in Swat Valley as residents appeal for pause in fighting so they can escape.
Fighting between government forces and Taliban militants in region intensifies as Pakistan faces biggest-to-date internal displacement.
Taliban fighters spilling out of the Swat Valley in Pakistan have swept across Buner, a district 96km from Islamabad.