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.
The government and Islamic hardliners on Monday signed an agreement to enforce sharia law in the northwestern Swat valley, said a provincial minister.
The death toll from a suicide car bombing at a polling station in northwest Pakistan has risen to 41, police said Monday.
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…
