MINGORA, Pakistan, May 9 (UPI) -- The Pakistani government urged civilians to flee the Swat Valley, lifting a curfew to make evacuation possible as the Army takes on the Taliban.
MINGORA, Pakistan, May 8 (UPI) -- The Pakistan military said it implemented a full-scale offensive in the Swat Valley Friday in an attempt to drive out Taliban militants.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 7 (UPI) -- Pakistani government officials Thursday said they would scrap a peace deal with the Taliban and undertake a more aggressive operation against the militants.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 4 (UPI) -- A Swat Valley peace deal between the Pakistan government and the Taliban is close to collapse, a spokesman for the militants said Monday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 27 (UPI) -- Pakistani troops Monday killed 20 militants in a ground and air operation against Taliban in the Lower Dir region in northwest Pakistan, official said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The head of the Taliban group that controls about 70 percent of the Swat Valley in Pakistan announced an indefinite cease-fire Tuesday.
TIMAGERA, Pakistan, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A Taliban spokesman says the Islamic militant group is instituting a cease-fire against Pakistani troops in the northwestern Swat Valley region.
MINGORA, Pakistan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- At least 16 Taliban militants and at least 43 civilians have died in a sustained Pakistani military offensive in the Swat Valley, observers said Sunday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A radical Pakistani Taliban cleric is demanding that a group of more than 50 Swat Valley dignitaries appear in his Islamic "court," local media says.
SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A Pakistani reporter was killed Sunday by security troops in the Swat Valley tourist region after allegedly refusing to stop at a checkpoint, sources say.
