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Made Popular Oct 28 2009
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Both the frequency and intensity of suicide bombing incidents have increased since early this month. While in the past, suicide bombings mostly happened in the NWFP and adjacent tribal belt, now the federal capital Islamabad and Punjab’s...

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Zaheerul Hassan, Lahore
Swat which remained on international focus due to turmoil brought out by the Taliban Insurgency since 2007, has now heading towards calm and peace slowly and gradually....
made popular Apr 10 2009
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Asif Butt, lahore
In the current political situation of Pakistan, the extremist right wing political parties of Pakistan are prolonging rifts in the democratic government of two major...
made popular Mar 12 2009
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Andri, Brisbane
The Tehrik-e-Nifaz-a-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM—- the Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Laws), founded by Sufi Mohammad, a resident of the Malakand Division...
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Christopher, Birmingham
With green meadows, high mountains and clear lakes, Swat is a favourite tourist destination, often called ‘the Switzerland of Pakistan’. Like the rest of the...
made popular Feb 20 2009
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Karim Khan, Peshawar
The influence of Taliban has reached an alarming level in the beautiful and once peaceful valley of Swat as the fundamentalists occupying parts of the valley have...
made popular Jan 27 2009
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Nazish, islamabad
Lead by radical cleric Maulana Fazalullah, militant set up that runs a parallel government in Swat has ordered all the girls school to be closed by 15th January. More...
made popular Jan 15 2009
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Karim Khan, Peshawar
Pakistan’s military forces have taken complete control of the Kabal Tehsil in Swat, according to a military source. The statement claimed that Taliban militants have...
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Vikas, solan
The brains of flies are wired to avoid the swatter, US researchers said. At the mere hint of a threat, the insects adjust their preflight stance to flee in the opposite...
made popular Aug 30 2008
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Several people, majority of them civilians, have been killed in the on-going fighting in Pakistan’s scenic valley Swat which was described by tourists as Paradise on...
made popular Aug 3 2008
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Apr 26 2009 by AP0 Comments

The spokesman for Pakistan’s president says the government’s peace deal with Taliban in the Swat valley is “intact” despite a new military operation.

 
 
Mar 4 2009 by AP0 Comments

Authorities say a North Dakota man who clashed with a city official over an unpaid water bill got into an 8 1/2-hour standoff with deputies that ended with a SWAT team member shooting him in the shoulder.

 
 
Mar 4 2009 by AP0 Comments

A man convicted of attempted murder and assault for firing at a SWAT team and wounding an officer in Washington state has been sentenced to 120 years in prison.

 
 
Feb 23 2009 by AP0 Comments

A hardline cleric dispatched by Pakistan to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban said the right of girls to attend school in the Swat valley was still under discussion but did not say whether the militants were planning to disarm.

 
 
Feb 18 2009 by AP0 Comments

Pakistan’s startling accord with Taliban fighters that would impose Islamic religious law on the strategic Swat valley looms as a setback for the Obama administration’s hopes to mount a united front against militants there and in Afghanistan.

 
 
Feb 17 2009 by AP0 Comments

NATO warned Tuesday that Pakistan risked creating a safe haven for Islamist extremists after it struck a deal to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive in the former tourist haven of Swat.

 
 
Nov 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

A police officer cleared of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black woman during a drug raid won’t be allowed to patrol the streets when he returns to work next week.

 
 
Aug 11 2008 by AP0 Comments

Authorities say a SWAT team has killed a man who allegedly wounded the mother of his 2-year-old daughter and then held the little girl hostage for more than two hours at his home in Lynwood, Calif.

 
 
Aug 4 2008 by AP0 Comments

A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black.

 
 
Aug 4 2008 by AP0 Comments

An Ohio jury has acquitted a white police officer in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman who was holding a child.

 
 
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