Tag: Swat

Plight of employed women in Swat after dislodging of Taliban

Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has said we have taken over the area of Swat after successful military operation in Malakand division and people...

Road link between Swat and Kalam restored

Sofia has finally done it. For the past couple of years, she had been trying to revisit the beautiful vale of Kalam, which she...

Boys dominate BISE Swat intermediate examinations

Students excelled in intermediate examinations as the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Swat declared the results late Friday evening. A ceremony was...

Gunmen killed PML-N Swat leader

Unidentified gunmen killed PML-N Swat leader Afzal Khan in Kanju, according to monitoring services. He was leaving his house when he was ambushed and succumbed...

Police excesses rising in Swat

Police are increasingly becoming imposing in Swat valley, as they tortured a lawyer at Khwaza Khela on Thursday and protests over the incident had...

Three of a family killed in Swat roof collapse

A woman and two of her children were killed while another was injured when roof of a house collapsed in Swat on Friday. According to...

Swat’s forgotten flood and terror victims

Nissa Bibi, 40, carries a mobile phone on an orange ribbon round her neck in the hope that her sister - Shahina Bibi who...

Army begins transferring administrative powers to Swat civil administration

The Pakistan Army began transferring the administrative powers to the Swat civil administration and the security responsibilities to the police on Saturday. In its...

Government writes off bank loans in war-torn Malakand division

The central bank Tuesday asked the banks and development finance institutions (DFIs) to totally write off loans of the borrowers in northern parts of...

Civilians to control Upper Swat from March

Military authorities in Swat have decided to handover the administration to civil authorities in Upper Swat by mid-March, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to...

Damaged Swat Museum to get new building

After peace has returned to the militancy affected Swat valley, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has finalised plan to construct a new Swat Museum...

SC directs Swat DRO to retrieve citizen’s land

Expressing annoyance over the defence secretary for not submitting reply on the alleged occupation of a land of a citizen in Swat by the...

The right’s wrongs

Votes mean something In the heyday of Taliban rule in Swat, Sufi Muhammad, the obscurant-in-chief of the TNSM, addressed a large gathering at the Grassy...

USA is not our enemy

It’s in our own backyard "We are going to cut these soldiers into pieces one by one, and we will send these pieces to their...

Swat residents take to streets to protest power, gas outages

With cold weather gaining strength by the day, prolonged and unscheduled electricity and gas load shedding forced the people of Saidu Sharif in Swat...

Swat rallies against NATO strike on Mohmand

Rallies and demonstrations against North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in Mohmand continued across the country, with people of...

Swat cops seize 1,500kg hashish

The Khuwaza Khela Police on Monday seized 1,500 kilograms of hashish and arrested the drug dealer in a raid. Station House Officer (SHO) Muzzakar...