PESHAWAR, Pakistan, April 22 (UPI) -- Taliban militants have taken over the northwestern Pakistan district of Buner, only 60 miles from the capital of Islamabad, witnesses said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 21 (UPI) -- The Taliban in Pakistan is challenging the legitimacy of the Pakistani government by declaring the country's legal system conflicts with Islam.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, March 20 (UPI) -- The release of 20 jailed Taliban militants was carried out to improve the ongoing peace process in Pakistan's Swat valley, authorities said Friday.
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.
MINGORA, Pakistan, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- A top local Pakistani official was kidnapped Sunday by unidentified gunmen in the Swat Valley, officials said.
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.
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.
MINGORA, Pakistan, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Taliban militants have blown up two closed girls schools in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley, sources say.
MINGORA, Pakistan, June 30 (UPI) -- A Taliban leader says talks between the militant group and the Pakistan government were suspended Monday after a bomb killed six in the country's northwest.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Pro-Taliban militants in the Swat district of northwest Pakistan reportedly reached a cease-fire with the military after heavy weekend fighting.
