Meghalaya puts in place SWAT team

Last Updated: Friday, December 3, 2010, 18:04

A Special Weapons and Action Tactics team has been deployed in Meghalaya for anti-insurgency operations; the government informed the Assembly day.

Pak`s Swat Valley may soon be called film city

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 21:07

The Pakistan government is mulling a proposal to give the status of "film city" to the scenic Swat valley, where the army conducted a major operation last year to flush out hundreds of Taliban fighters.

Pakistani security forces kill six militants in Swat

Last Updated: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 18:29

Pakistani security forces killed six militants in clashes in the Swat Valley, a northwest region where the military has largely routed the Taliban but where sporadic violence persists, an army spokesman said Sunday.

Two Taliban militants killed in Pak`s Swat

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 15:24

Pakistani security forces have killed two pro-Taliban militants in clashes in the restive Swat district in the country`s northwest.

Militants kill noted Islamic scholar in Pak

Last Updated: Saturday, October 2, 2010, 17:03

Militants on Friday gunned down noted Islamic scholar and Swat Islamic University Vice-Chancellor Farooq Khan and his bodyguard in northwest Pakistan, officials said.

Not one bridge left standing in flood-hit Swat valley: Qureshi

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 18:13

The catastrophic floods in Pakistan, which displaced 20 million people, have destroyed all bridges in the picturesque Swat valley, once a hotbed of Taliban militants.

Floods ravage Pakistan valley that endured Taliban

Last Updated: Monday, August 2, 2010, 09:09

Pakistan`s northwest has been wracked by worst floods in country`s history.

New video shows Mullah Fazlullah alive

Last Updated: Friday, July 23, 2010, 12:51

Swat Taliban commander Mullah Fazlullah has Rs 5 million bounty on his head.

HRW points finger at Pakistan over violations in Swat

Last Updated: Friday, July 23, 2010, 00:19

A US-based rights group on Thursday urged Pakistan to probe reports of collective punishment by security forces of relatives of Taliban militants in an area of the lawless northwest.

Mullah Fazlullah’s close aide surrenders in Swat

Last Updated: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 13:35

Qari Sohail surrendered before security forces in Swat’s Charbag tehsil.

Blast in Pakistan`s Swat Valley kills 5, wounds 35

Last Updated: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 16:04

The bomb ripped through a busy street outside a bus terminal in Mingora.

Security forces put up posters of wanted militants in Swat

Last Updated: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 22:12

Security forces on Thursday put up posters of wanted militants in the restive Swat district in northwest Pakistan and called on people to inform authorities about their presence in the area.