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cities, towns and villages of Swat, Pakistan
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The Wire
April 28, 2018
According to Imtiaz Alam, The News, one of Pakistan's prominent English language dailies, refused to publish this column written by him. ... over the ideological plausibility of its worthiness), who decided to respect their civil right to express themselves from the 'Hyde Park' of the inner city – the historic MochiÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 26, 2018
However, he expressed his dissatisfaction over the attitude of the government with PTM workers and urged the jirga members to create an atmosphere of trust and confidence. He also reiterated the PTM stance on holding public gatherings in Swat, Karachi and other cities of the country. Earlier on his arrivalÃâà...
UrduPoint News
April 25, 2018
SWAT, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Apr, 2018 ) :Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority (FS&HFA) Swat sealed two ice cream ... by deputy director and assistant directors operations raided couple of sub standards cooking oil and ghee factories in different localities of the city.
Global Village space (blog)
April 25, 2018
But PTM's demand to seek an international guarantee if the state of Pakistan decides to negotiate with them, and signs an agreement, raised alarm bells ... TTP killed, beheaded and lashed people all across FATA and Swat and controlled the territory to attack Peshawar, areas in KP and all across Pakistan.
Geo News, Pakistan
April 17, 2018
The festival was organized Udhyaana, Swat Education Department and Pakistan Alliance for Maths and Science, and inaugurated by Commissioner Malakand Division Syed Zaheer ul Islam, Deputy Commissioner Shahid Mehmood, Assistant Commissioner Shahab Khan, Nazim Muhammad Ali Shah andÃâà...
The Media Line
April 9, 2018
The Nobel Peace Laureate returns to Pakistan nearly six years after the attack that nearly ended her life. [Islamabad]—Amid tight security and a heavily armed military escort, girls' education advocate Malala Yousafzai visited her native city of Mingora, Pakistan late last month. Accompanied by her father,Ãâà...
The Times
April 1, 2018
Flanked by her parents the Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai made an emotional return to her Pakistani home town for the first time since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012. The high-security trip to Mingora in the Swat Valley was a closely guarded secret. Ms Yousafzai and herÃâà...
New Jersey Herald
April 1, 2018
A Pakistani women's activist says Malala Yousafzai, who is back in Pakistan for the first time since the Taliban shot her in 2012, is hoping to visit her Swat ... Pakistan's Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has entered her home in the northwestern town of Mingora in the Swat Valley the first timeÃâà...
DAWN.com
April 1, 2018
After years of recession the fishing industry in Swat is booming again with the fisheries department claiming that the production of trout fish would soon ... Khurshaid Alam, a trout fish farm owner at Biha village in Matta tehsil who has been connected with the business since 2004, said that till 2007 his farmÃâà...
Firstpost
April 1, 2018
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Thursday in her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman six years ago. She said in a brief speech at a ceremony at Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's office that she will continue to campaign forÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 31, 2018
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on March 31 visited her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012. Malala landed by helicopter in the town of Mingora, in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley, amid heightened security together with her father, mother,Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 31, 2018
Malala Yousafzai returns to Pakistan hometown for first time – video ... Yousafzai and her parents landed in an army helicopter at a cadet school near the Swat Valley town in north-west Pakistan on Saturday morning. Malala Yousafzai visits hometown for first time since Taliban shooting. Source: AP.
East Coast Radio
March 31, 2018
Peace has returned to Swat because of the invaluable sacrifices rendered by my brothers and sisters," she said at a school outside Mingora, the district's main town, where she was escorted by the Pakistani military. The brief trip by the 20-year-old Nobel laureate is a highly symbolic moment for Pakistan,Ãâà...
KTXS
March 31, 2018
MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Saturday arrived in her hometown for the first time since a Taliban militant shot ... Yousafzai and her family arrived in a helicopter provided by the Pakistani military, which took her to the town of Mingora in the Swat Valley from Islamabad.
Yahoo News
March 31, 2018
After flying by army helicopter to the northwestern region from Islamabad, she met with friends and family before visiting the all-boys Swat Cadet College Guli Bagh, some 15 kilometres (nine miles) outside of Mingora, the district's main town. She looked happy on arrival at the school, where she is expectedÃâà...
New York Times
March 31, 2018
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist for girls' education and the world's youngest Nobel laureate, visited her hometown in ... Her return under heavy security to the city of Mingora in the Swat Valley — a former Taliban stronghold — was a deeply emotional moment for Ms.
Daily Pakistan
March 30, 2018
ISLAMABAD – The attack on an army unit in Swat was carried out by the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists based in Afghanistan, stated ... hideouts from where they have been financing, planning and undertaking cross-border terrorist attacks on Pakistani military posts, cities and towns.
DAWN.com
March 30, 2018
ISLAMABAD: The attack on an army unit in Swat was carried out by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists based on Afghan soil, said a ... they have been financing, planning and undertaking cross-border terrorist attacks on Pakistani military posts, cities and towns,” an FO statement said.
The Nation
March 29, 2018
ISLAMABAD - The United States on Thursday delivered a strong message of 'do a lot more' yet again to Pakistan as a senior American diplomat visited ... been financing, planning and undertaking cross-border terrorist attacks on Pakistani military posts, cities and towns,” said a foreign ministry statement.
UrduPoint News
March 26, 2018
LONDON, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th Mar, 2018 ):Dancing in the hills: a journey to meet Pakistan's Kalash people, close to the Afghan border, ... He said a little south-east was the Swat Valley that only a decade before had declared itself an independent Islamic republic run by a pro-TalibanÃâà...
Dhaka Tribune
March 26, 2018
The port city has carved out a special place for itself in the history of Bangladesh's struggle for freedom. ... MV Swat, a Pakistani ship carrying weapons for the occupation forces, had anchored at Chittagong Port. ... “The Pakistan army opened fire on us when we reached the Navy Fleet at Double Mooring.
Arab News
March 23, 2018
The northern areas of Pakistan also host some of the longest glaciers (outside the polar region), especially in the Karakorams. The Siachin glacier is 75 kilometers long. The Hispar, (52 kilometers) joins the Biafo at the Hispar La (5,154 meters) to form a 116-kilometer ice corridor. The Batura is 58 kilometersÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 23, 2018
“Pakistan is in the list of those 10 countries where majority of the people are deprived of clean drinking water facility and are compelled to use contaminated water,” said Sheda Muhammad. “Politicians should play their role to create awareness among the masses about clean water,” stated City Nazim IkramÃâà...
The Express Tribune
March 19, 2018
A vacant lot, leveled during the two-year Pakistani offensive against the Haqqani network lies dormant in the North Waziristan city of Miran Shah. ... Clean, safe and secure villages and towns are now being touted by Islamabad as the supposed hallmarks of tribal regions on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border,Ãâà...
The Diplomat
March 9, 2018
The majority are from Swat, the tourist spot in Pakistan's northwest once overtaken by the Pakistani Taliban. Among them, the most prominent was Abdullah, son of the Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, who hails from the Mam Dheri area of Swat in Pakistan's northwest. The village is also the birth place of theÃâà...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
An operation by the Pakistani Army against militants in the tribal areas in 2014 displaced around a million people. The process of return began in 2016, ... In the spring of 2004, I left my village with him to attend high school in Peshawar, the largest city in northwestern Pakistan. Every day I wondered whetherÃâà...
DAWN.com
February 26, 2018
MINGORA: The educationists and social civil society members have shown concerns over lack of basic facilities in the government schools in Swat. ... He said that Swat was put on 86th number among the 141 districts of the country according to Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Ranking in 2017.
BBC News
December 31, 1999
Tens of thousands of Pashtuns are demanding an end to extrajudicial killings and abductions they blame on the Pakistani state - and a charismatic young .... It was a time when families had to move from their villages and take refuge in faraway towns and cities like Bannu, Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi.
The Express Tribune
December 31, 1999
PTM leaders say stories of Pashtun disappearances have been largely ignored until now, especially ordeals suffered by families from the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, including thousands who moved to major cities to escape a near-decade long insurgency by militants. The Pakistan Army's publicÃâà...
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