Swat Valley

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  "Bus, Man, Gun, Blood": Malala Yousafzai Reveals How Smoking Weed Brought Back Trauma Of Taliban Attack

  Malala Yousafzai, now 28 and known worldwide for championing girls' education, was only 15 when she was shot by a masked Taliban gunman while riding a school bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

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  3 Pak Children Killed After They Mistook Mortar Shell For A Toy: Police

  Three children were killed after a mortar shell they mistook for a toy exploded in a field in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley, police said Thursday.

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  ''Back With Eyes Open'': Malala Yousafzai Visits Pakistan District Where She Was Shot

  Malala Yousafzai visited the Swat valley Saturday for her first trip back to the once militant-infested Pakistani region where she was shot in the head by the Taliban more than five years ago.

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  "I Have Never Been So Happy": Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai In Pakistan

  Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says she has pined for her home in Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, even as she recalled two years living in fear under the Taliban's harsh interpretation of Islamic law

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  Joy In Nobel Winner Malala Yousafzai's Hometown, Though Some Pakistanis Decry Her

  In the Pakistani hometown of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, reminders are frequent of the daughter of scenic northwestern Swat Valley who survived a gun attack and so are memories of harsh rule by the Taliban.

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  11 Soldiers Dead, 13 Wounded In Suicide Attack In Pakistan's Swat Valley

  At least 11 soldiers were killed and 13 wounded on Saturday in a suicide attack near an army base in northern Pakistan, officials said, in a region that was once controlled by a local faction of the Taliban.

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  Taliban Phone Calls Demanding Cash Stir Fears Of A Comeback In Pakistan

  When Pakistani shopkeeper Abdur Rahim's phone rang in mid-October, he was shocked to hear the voice of a senior terrorist commander demanding protection money from him and his fellow traders in the Swat Valley.

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  Malala Yousafzai Becomes Millionaire With Book Sales, Lectures

  Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai and her family have become millionaires as a result of income from her memoir describing life under Taliban rule in Pakistan's picturesque Swat valley and appearances on the lecture circuit around the world.

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  Bomb in Toy Kills Father, 2 Children in Pakistan

  A father and two of his children were killed in northwest Pakistan today after a bomb concealed inside a toy went off inside their home.

• Fighters Kill Pakistani Soldiers Near Afghanistan Border

  Militants killed a Pakistan army captain and two soldiers in a cross-border attack early Saturday in a tribal region near Afghanistan, as an airstrike killed 13 suspected extremist fighters, authorities said.

• Militant Attacks Kill Five in North West Pakistan

  At least five people including three policemen were killed on Wednesday in two militant clashes near Pakistan's Swat Valley, officials said.

• Pakistan displaced families put faith in peace talks

  For Zarmata Bibi, a grandmother from Pakistan's volatile tribal areas, landmark peace talks between the government and the Taliban aimed at ending a seven-year insurgency couldn't come soon enough.

• Grenade attack on cinema kills four in northwest Pakistan: officials

  At least four people were killed and 31 wounded late on Sunday when unidentified attackers hurled two grenades at a cinema in northwest Pakistan, police and medics said.

• Pakistan's Supreme Court forces military to produce prisoners

  Pakistan's military, widely regarded as enjoying impunity, partially complied with a Supreme Court ruling on Saturday by producing some of the hundreds of prisoners.

• Malala Yousafzai's book banned by private schools in Pakistan: report

  A book by Malala Yousufzai has been banned by a federation of private schools in Pakistan, a British daily reported today.