A Pakistani military offensive has killed up to 700 militants in the past four days, and the operation will proceed until the last fighter is ousted.
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.
Pakistani planes bombed the Taliban in their Swat bastion on Friday, after the prime minister ordered the elimination of ”militants and terrorists”.
Fighting between government forces and Taliban militants in region intensifies as Pakistan faces biggest-to-date internal displacement.
Barack Obama will urge the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to put aside mistrust and join Washington in an alliance against Islamic extremists.
Pakistan is continuing to expand its nuclear bomb-making facilities despite growing international concern, US nuclear experts say.
Taliban militants kidnapped 10 Pakistani paramilitaries in an attack on their headquarters on Friday.
Pakistan said on Wednesday its troops seized control of the main town in the north-west region of Buner after fierce fighting with the Taliban.
Pakistani forces began an offensive on Tuesday against Taliban fighters in a key valley 100 km northwest of the capital, Islamabad.
Salar Jadoon was kidnapped on the school run, his sister was shot in the head and his driver was killed in an attack that is common in Peshawar.
Four children and their parents were killed in a grenade blast in Pakistan’s north-west on Sunday, a day after 12 children were killed by a bomb.
The Taliban in Pakistan have moved to within 100km of Islamabad, officials say, sparking global concern.
Taliban fighters spilling out of the Swat Valley in Pakistan have swept across Buner, a district 96km from Islamabad.
Pakistan is battling Islamist militants for its survival, President Asif Ali Zardari told a visiting US envoy.
Violence rocked nuclear-armed Pakistan on Saturday, with a pilotless US drone aircraft killing 13 people including militants in the northwest.
The US offered Taliban fighters who renounce violence in Afghanistan an ”honourable form of reconciliation” on Tuesday.
Pakistan’s new role at the centre of the fight against al-Qaeda will lead to more extremist violence and pose huge challenges to a government with a doubtful ability to deliver
The US president plans to send thousands of troops to train Afghan forces as part of a strategy that will focus efforts on destroying al-Qaeda havens.
The red plastic sofas in the living room of Maulvi Mohammed Rahmani in Kabul’s Deh Bori quarter are rarely empty these days.
President Hamid Karzai warned the international community on Wednesday to stay clear of getting involved in governance within Afghanistan.
Pakistan extended a crackdown against activists on Friday, banning rallies and arresting scores of people ahead of planned mass protests.
We’re only 50 days in, but it’s not too soon to discern a refreshing thread of logic in the president’s foreign policy.
Tribesmen signed a deal with Pakistani authorities on Monday, promising not to shelter militants in a tribal area on the Afghan border.
Courting death if they go out alone, women oppressed by Taliban extremists in Swat valley have nothing to celebrate on International Women’s Day.
Pakistan’s interior ministry chief said on Friday he could not rule out foreign involvement in the Sri Lankan cricket attack.
Presidential polls in Afghanistan can’t be held next month as demanded by President Hamid Karzai, the elections commission said on Wednesday.
Girls in Pakistan’s Swat Valley can attend school but must wear veils that cover their heads and faces, a top official said on Monday.
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/ 26 February 2009
Taliban militants beheaded an Afghan in Pakistan’s lawless tribal region after accusing him of spying for the United States, police said on Thursday.
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/ 24 February 2009
Pakistani Taliban militants announced an indefinite ceasefire in the Swat valley in the north-west of the country on Tuesday.
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/ 18 February 2009
US forces killed at least one child, video footage showed on Wednesday, in an air strike in western Afghanistan that police say killed 12 civilians.
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/ 11 February 2009
Taliban insurgents attacked two government buildings in Kabul on Wednesday killing at least 19 people, officials said.