Buner, the district 60 miles north of Islamabad whose fall to the Taliban last month sparked alarmed American warnings about the future of Pakistan, has been substantially wrestled from militant hands ...

Islamabad: Taliban militants from Pakistans Swat valley are refusing to budge out of the Buner district which they forcibly occupied and have established a big base in the town, located just 100 km ...

It isn’t hard to recognize a Pakistani Taliban fighter. Most of the thickly bearded men are barely in their 20s — members of a new and fiercer generation of jihadists. Their long black hair flows down ...

Minister for Power Sardar Awais Ahmed Leghari says electricity supply has been restored at 45 feeders in Swat, Buner and Shangla while work is underway on four others affected by rains and floods in ...

PESHAWAR: In restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, one district stands out in its treatment of the Sikh community. Followers of Guru Nanak are thriving in Buner, when elsewhere in the country minorities seem to ...

Pakistani commandos were dropped behind Taliban lines by helicopter to seize control of the main town in the Taliban-infiltrated district of Buner in fighting that killed 50 militants, the military ...

Mohan Kumar may just be another Pacha Kalay resident for many visiting the Buner village since centuries to pay homage at the shrine of Syed Ali Tirmizi, popularly known as Pir Baba. Among locals, ...

PESHAWAR Suspension of raw material supply from Buner has put the country's marble industry in jeopardy, rendered thousands of workers jobless and hit hard the local economy. The military's clean-up ...

Aziz Ahmed, a local schoolteacher in Buner, northwestern Pakistan said the thunder accompanying recent torrential rains was so loud he thought the “end of the world had come”. Water, rocks and trees ...

BUNER Taliban militants from Swat took control of Buner on Tuesday and started patrolling bazaars, villages and towns in the district. The militants, who had sneaked into Gokand valley of Buner on ...

Pakistan has launched a ground and air offensive against Taliban fighters in Buner, a district some 100 km from Islamabad that was seized by the militants last week. An operation to rout the Taliban ...