MINGORA, Pakistan — No one expected the news from Oslo this time. Last year, supporters of Malala Yousafzai in her native Swat Valley defied possible backlash from Taliban-backed militants and ...

This time the line of vehicles snaking for miles down the sweltering valley — small cars packed with families and large trucks heaving with livestock and furniture — are not fleeing; the refugees from ...

MINGORA, Pakistan — Two weeks after the Pakistani government capitulated to Islamist demands and imposed Islamic law throughout the Swat valley, armed militants are patrolling the streets of the ...

Ending a prolonged dry spell, Sunday’s rainfall followed by fresh snowfall transformed Upper Swat into a winter wonderland, ...

Judges trained in Islamic law began reviewing cases Tuesday in a northwest Pakistani region where the government has alarmed the West by agreeing to impose religious rule to make peace with the ...

MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani women's activist said Friday that Malala Yousafzai, who has returned to Pakistan's capital Islamabad for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her in 2012, ...

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - When Pakistani shopkeeper Abdur Rahim's phone rang in mid-October, he was shocked to hear the voice of a senior militant commander demanding protection money from him and ...

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) -- Pakistani aircraft have bombed Taliban positions in Swat, a day after the prime minister ordered the military to eliminate terrorists and on the heels of a commitment to ...

“Smile, you’re in Swat,” reads a billboard on the main road into the lush green honeymooners’ valley in Pakistan once dubbed the “Switzerland of Asia.” But over the past two years, Swat has been ...

Pakistani forces killed 55 Taliban in the northwestern valley of Swat on Friday, the army said, and lifted a curfew to allow thousands of civilians to flee before troops assail the Taliban-held main ...

MINGORA, Pakistan >> Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai arrived in her hometown today for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012 for advocating girls’ ...