MINGORA, Pakistan — Here in Pakistan's Swat Valley, known for gorgeous sunsets and the calming sound of river rapids, there has been plenty of misery over the past decade. First, Pakistani ...

MINGORA, Pakistan — No one expected the news from Oslo this time. Last year, supporters of Malala Yousafzai in her native Swat Valley defied possible backlash from Taliban-backed militants and ...

In a sign of the lack of confidence that Mingora was secure ... absence will have lasting ramifications not only for Swat, but also for Pakistan’s most populated province, Punjab, where the ...

Thousands of people in northwestern Pakistan took to the streets ... a motorcycle opened fire on a school van in Mingora, a central town in Swat. Police said Monday’s shooting left the driver ...

In Pakistan's Swat Valley, the army says that it has made some very important gains. Government forces claim to have seized some areas of the Valley's largest city, Mingora. NPR's Julie McCarthy ...

with its epicentre in the Hindukush mountain range — a known seismic zone spanning parts of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. Tremors were felt across several areas of Swat, including Mingora ...

SWAT: A moderate earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale hit Swat and its adjoining areas on Sunday afternoon, causing panic among the residents.According to the National Seismological Centr ...

MINGORA, PakistanMINGORA, Pakistan — Courts are back in session in Pakistan’s Swat Valley after a three-month hiatus because of an army offensive against Taliban militants. How well the ...

SWAT: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s former MPA Fazal Hakeem and his brother-in-law, Shahid Ali Khan, the Mingora city mayor, were arrested by the police from inside a court here on Wednesday and ...

SWAT: Flashflood triggered by heavy rains and thunderstorm on Wednesday caused heavy losses to property on either side of river flowing through Mingora canal. The flood also swept away a three ...