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Culture makes a comeback in Swat
Seeded on Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:05 AM EDT (BBC News)
Before the arrival of the Taliban, the north-western Pakistani valley of Swat was a centre of Pashtun music and culture. But under the militants a ban was imposed on all forms of artistic expression.
Cinemas Reopen in Swat Valley after Taliban offensive
Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:34 AM EDT
MINGORA: After months of successful military offensive against Taliban Militants, owners of local cinemas gather courage to open the doors of their cinema halls to the entertainment starving folk in the violence-hit Swat valley of North Western Pakistan.
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Snuffing Music & Dance: The Taliban's Cultural Invasion
Thu Jul 9, 2009 5:00 AM EDT
[Swat Valley] On a cold night in January, 2008, a group of militants hammered at the door of a popular Pashto dancer, Shabana, in Mingora, a city in the Swat district of Northwestern Pakistan.
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War against Terror: People are uncertain about their future in Buner Valley of Pakistan
Wed Jul 8, 2009 8:59 AM EDT
DAGGAR: Though some of the displaced families are returning to the conflict hit Buner district of North Western Pakistan after two months of intense fighting between Pakistan security forces and Taliban militants, people in the valley are still uncertain about their future and ha …
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Millions Wait To Return To Their "Paradise"
Tue Jun 9, 2009 4:05 AM EDT
On 20 May, Akbar Khan, a 70-year-old farmer in the Nawagai village of Swat in northwestern Pakistan, was returning from his orchards and rice fields when a group of Taliban fighters entered his village and occupied the main thoroughfare.
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Taliban Influence In Pak Bureaucracy
Seeded on Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:33 AM EDT (www.pashtunpost.com)
That a high-level provincial official posted in Swat should write a letter to the NWFP home department implying the complicity of the commissioner of Malakand Division in the ever-expanding influence of the Taliban in the region is an illustration of what is happening and how.
Security And Development In The Region: The New US Strategy For Pakistan And Afghanistan
Seeded on Mon Apr 6, 2009 8:14 AM EDT (www.pashtunpost.com)
This paper is team work of the researchers of the Ariana Institute for Research and Regional Advocacy (AIRRA), a research organization based in Islamabad. Pashtunpost publishes it with special permission from AIRAA.
Teenage Girl Flogged By Taliban In Swat
Seeded on Fri Apr 3, 2009 8:21 AM EDT (www.pashtunpost.com)
KARACHI: A video showing a girl being flogged by Taliban militants has emerged from Pakistan's Swat Valley, Times Online and Guardian reported.
Demolishing The Shrine Of Sufi Poet--Cultural, Ideological And Strategic Implications
Seeded on Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:54 AM EDT (www.pashtunpost.com)
As the dawn of March 6 2009 spread over the horizon of Peshawar valley, the people of Hazar Khwani, a village at a distance of 5 km to the south east of Peshawar, headquarters of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, heard a series of blasts in the final resting place of …
Militants Bomb Mausoleum Of Legendary Pashtun Poet
Thu Mar 5, 2009 5:25 AM EST
PESHAWAR: Unidentified militants Thursday bombed the mausoleum of Abdurrahman Baba, the 17th century legendary Sufi poet of the Pashtuns in Hazarkhwani area close to Peshawar city in North West Frontier province (NWFP) of Pakistan.
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NWFP Govt ,TNSM Signs Accord;Sharia Announced In Malakand
Seeded on Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:38 AM EST (www.pashtunpost.com)
PESHAWAR: A Grand Peace Jirga of political and religious leadership in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has approved implementation of Nizam-e-Adal Regulation in the conflict-ridden Malakand region of the province here on Monday.
Taliban Announce 10-day Ceasefire In Swat
Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:17 AM EST
MINGORA: In view of the ongoing peace process Taliban in Swat Valley of Pakistan have announced a 10-day cease-fire saying that they will retaliate if the security forces fired upon them.
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Efforts On To Restore Peace To Volatile Swat Valley
Seeded on Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:01 AM EST (www.pashtunpost.com)
PESHAWAR: In a bid to bring peace to the volatile Swat valley efforts at both provincial and local levels are in full swing.
Swat civilians caught in the crossfire
Seeded on Fri Feb 6, 2009 12:27 PM EST (BBC News)
In his third and final feature from the troubled north-western Pakistani region of Swat, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan discovers that it is ordinary people who are suffering most in the struggle between the Pakistan army and Taleban militants.
No Space for Art in "Taliban State"
Seeded on Tue Feb 3, 2009 3:12 AM EST (www.pashtunpost.com)
With an artificial smile on his face, the heavy hearted Alamzeb Mujahid, announced his 'pre-mature retirement' from the 'world of art' at a hurriedly arranged press conference in Peshawar's Press Club immediately after the popular comic figure got released from his capt …
Swat Under Taliban Rule
Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:58 AM EST (www.pashtunpost.com)
Taliban militants have responded to a unanimous resolution passed this month by the Pakistan parliament to fight terror with renewed zeal and to protect women's rights and educational institutions in the violence-hit Swat Valley, by destroying some more schools and summoning 40 …
Pakistan Falters Against Taliban in Swat Valley
Seeded on Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:42 AM EST (http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com)
In October 2007, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf deployed more than 25,000 security forces to Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan to fight against Taliban militants under the command of Maulana Fazlullah and restore peace to the picturesque valley.
Militant Commander Summons 40 Politicians To Appear Before Taliban Court
Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:20 AM EST
By Shaheen Buneri MINGORA, Jan 25: Maulana Fazlullah, Taliban commander in restive Swat Valley of North Western Pakistan while issuing a list of the names of 40 political and social leaders on his illegal FM Radio here on Sunday has warned that these people immediately appear b …
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Bajaur's IDPs – Our Wretched Of The Earth
Seeded on Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:38 PM EST (www.pashtunpost.com)
I spent a whole day with the internally displaced people, IDPs, from Bajaur in a camp near Peshawar. I went from tent to tent to meet the traumatized families and to listen to their ordeals in their own words. Most of the time I interacted with women.
For Whom Will the Gulai-Nargis Bloom this Spring in the Swat Valley
Seeded on Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:23 AM EST (www.khybernews.tv)
Today, the 15th January 2009 civilisation, democracy, human rights, rule of law, equality, justice and equity stand defeated.
Jihadi Hymns Replace Music
Seeded on Sat Jan 3, 2009 8:58 AM EST (www.freemuse.org)
The rapidly growing influence of the Taliban in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province has left the areas' singers and musicians with few choices: Either quit singing or face the wrath of different Taliban groups.
40 Killed, 70 Injured in a Suicide Bomb Explosion in NW Pakistan
Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:51 AM EST
DAGGAR: At least 40 people killed and 70 other injured when a suicide bomber exploded his car near a polling station in Shalbandi village of Buner in North West Pakistan.
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Taliban Use Crockery to Promote Jihad in Swat Valley of Pakistan
Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:01 AM EST
By Shaheen Buneri PESHAWAR: After promoting their "cause", via high tech video and audio productions, Taliban in Swat valley have now embarked on a more unique and impressive style of marketing—manufacturing crokery with their popular Jihadi slogans.
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Is Peshawar Becoming the Most Dangerous City in the World?
Seeded on Mon Dec 8, 2008 8:27 AM EST (www.themedialine.org)
Several months ago it was rumored that fighters affiliated with the Pakistan Taliban Movement (TTP) might take control of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Raising Militancy: Time to Protect Pakistan's Buddhist Heritage
Wed Dec 3, 2008 5:35 AM EST
By Shaheen Buneri PESHAWAR: Conservationists and lovers of Gandahara art have expressed their deep concern over the indifferent attitude of the federal government to provide protection to Swat Museum and delay dallying at the federal level in the shifting of archeological object …
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Culture makes a comeback in Swat Before the arrival of the Taliban, the north-western Pakistani valley of Swat was a centre of Pashtun music and culture. But under the militants a ban was imposed on all forms of artistic expression.
Cinemas Reopen in Swat Valley after Taliban offensive
MINGORA: After months of successful military offensive against Taliban Militants, owners of local cinemas gather courage to open the doors of their cinema halls to the entertainment starving folk in the violence-hit Swat valley of North Western Pakistan.
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