Malakand

Islamabad, June 30 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said the military offensive in the Malakand division would continue until militants are completely eliminated from the region....

Tampa (Florida), June 17 (ANI): The US Central Command Chief, General David Petraeus, has said that Pakistan is fighting for its own survival, as the Pakistan Army continued its offensive against the Taliban and other insurgents in the Malakand and Swat Valley of the North...

Islamabad, June 16 (ANI): The Pakistan Government's decision to launch an operation in Waziristan to catch Baitullah Mehsud could provide the Taliban the fillip to regroup in Malakand, warned former interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao....

Islamabad, June 13 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has reportedly killed 60 more Taliban insurgents in the past 24 hours, during its whirlwind offensive in Malakand and other different regions of the Swat Valley....

Islamabad, June 4 (ANI): Pakistan's Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has announced that the Pak government will deploy around 25,000 retired army personnel in conflict-hit Malakand division for a period of two years to maintain law and order....

Islamabad, June 3 (ANI): Taliban militants may have escaped from conflict zones in the Malakand Division in the guise of refugees....

Islamabad, may 25 (ANI): India has had a role to play in fermenting unrest in the Malakand agency of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), claimed Markazi Jamiat Ehle Hadith leader Sajid Mir....

Swat, May 13 (ANI): The number of people who have fled fighting in northwest Pakistan and registered with authorities in the last 11 days has jumped to more than 670,000, the UN refugee agency has said on Wednesday....

Islamabad, May 10 (ANI): Terming the ongoing military operation in the Malakand Division in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) as "guerilla war", Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said no time frame could be set for the operation to be called-off....

Peshawar, May. 1 (ANI): Taliban militants have kidnapped 10 Pakistani soldiers from their local headquarters in Dir town, which borders the troubled Swat valley....

Islamabad, Apr.14 (ANI): Qazi courts have started functioning with full authority following the National Assembly's nod to implement the sharia law in the Malakand division, The News reports....