A dozen lawyers are helping other women in the Swat Valley with divorce, custody and inheritance cases. Some of the women lawyers defied the Taliban to study law and continue to endure threats.

Pakistani Troops Fighting Extremists In Swat Valley Washington Post columnist David Ignatius has just returned from Pakistan, where he visited the lush Swat Valley — an area that until recently ...

Swat Valley has become the epicenter of the power struggle between the militants and Pakistan forces. International aid agencies say 200,000 people have already escaped the widening conflict there.

Both men were imprisoned upon their return from Afghanistan, and it was after he was freed that Fazlullah returned to the Swat Valley village of Imam Dheri, operating the yellow-painted chairlift ...

Nearly three months after Pakistan retook the Swat Valley from the Taliban, corpses are still turning up on the streets. This time, the victims are suspected militants — and the killers are ...

* Army appeals for public to back offensive on Afghan border * Swat resident says Taliban take to the hills (For full coverage on Pakistan, double click on [nSP102615]) By Kamran Haider ISLAMABAD ...

X-ray machines in hospitals in Pakistan's Swat Valley are 20 years old. The tourism industry is shattered. Frustrations over unemployment are spreading.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani soldiers arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat Valley and four other commanders, the military announced Friday, striking its first direct blow against the ...

Pakistani jets and helicopters bombarded militant targets in Swat, where troops entered strategic towns in a pincer thrust towards the Taliban-held capital of the northwest valley.

MINGORA, Pakistan — The military offensive to expel the Taliban from Pakistan’s Swat Valley could take another two months to complete, and troops may have to stay for a year to prevent ...