A Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban has been discharged from hospital.

A 15-year-old schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban will be honoured for her courage and determination.

The Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education has urged her country to reverse a decision to rename a college in her honour to avert militant attacks on students.

Shehrbano Taseer takes an insider’s look at the 15-year-old girl who may finally turn the tide on extremism

Pakistani police have arrested a number of suspects in the case of a 14-year-old girl shot in the head by the Taliban after promoting girls’ education and speaking out about the group’s atrocities.

Schools in Pakistan's Swat Valley have closed in protest as anger erupted across the country over the Taliban attack on a 14-year-old activist famed for promoting girls' education.

A 14-year-old who championed Pakistani girls’ rights to an education has been shot in a suspected Taliban attack.

A case of the deadly waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest, and aid workers expect there to be more, the UN said today.

A case of the deadly, waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest, and aid workers expect it is not isolated, the UN said today.

An explosion near a bus terminal in Pakistan’s Swat Valley killed two people and wounded at least 35 today, officials said.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy market area in the main city in Pakistan’s Swat Valley today, killing two civilians in the north-western region wrested from the Taliban last year, police said.

A bomb has ripped through a busy market area in the main city in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, killing at least two people, police said today.

A British woman was among eight people killed by a suspected suicide bomber in Pakistan, it was revealed today.

Police commandos acting on a tip-off killed one militant and arrested five others today in a raid against a bombing cell accused in recent attacks around the north west Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said today.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 14 police recruits near the main police station in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, an official said today.

President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan has praised the country’s “very significant” progress in taking back key territory from the Taliban and promised more weapons for the fight against extremists close to the Afghan border.

Dozens of artists, including singers and dancers, who left Pakistan’s Swat district after the Taliban arrived are now returning to their homes.

SECURITY forces have rescued several children forcibly recruited by the Taliban, allegedly to be used as fighters or suicide bombers, and there could be hundreds more like them, an army official has said.

THE first groups of the two million Pakistanis who fled a military offensive against the Taliban in Swat Valley began trickling back home yesterday, but many families refused to leave refugee camps, demanding promised government assistance and citing security concerns.

Pakistani troops backed by jet fighters and artillery killed about 50 militants in a volatile north-western tribal region near Afghanistan where the country's top Taliban leader is believed to be entrenched with thousands of his fighters, officials said today.

Pakistan lifted curfews on seven towns in the Swat Valley today in a further sign of confidence that its offensive against the Taliban is making progress.

PAKISTAN’S defence secretary said yesterday that a month-long offensive to crush Taliban fighters in north-west Swat could end within days, as fierce fighting spilled into a nearby tribal area.

The Pakistan military says it has regained control of the largest town in the Swat Valley from the Taliban.

The Taliban have urged civilians to return to the Swat Valley’s main city, promising they would not attack security forces out of concern for the safety of trapped residents.

THE Taliban urged civilians yesterday to return to the main town in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, promising that they won’t attack security forces battling insurgents there but it stopping short of calling the move a ceasefire.

PAKISTANI troops battling the Taliban have captured several points in the Swat Valley’s main town, the army said yesterday, including a spot nicknamed “bloody intersection” because militants routinely dumped the mutilated bodies of their victims there.

Pakistani security forces are fighting street battles with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley’s main urban centre, a critical phase in the effort to wrest the northwest region near Afghanistan out of insurgent hands.

Pakistan’s army said its troops have entered the main town in the Swat Valley and are engaging militants in street fights.

A DEADLY car bomb has killed six and injured 70 in the Pakistani city of Peshawar as the UN appealed for $543 million (€388m) to ease the suffering of nearly two million refugees from the fighting in the north-west.

THE Pakistani government yesterday urged people stranded by a military offensive against Taliban militants in the Swat valley to try to get out.

Pakistani security forces fought Taliban militants on the outskirts of the main city in the north-west’s Swat Valley and entered two other Taliban-held towns there, the army said today, foreshadowing what could become bloody urban battles.

Pakistani forces killed 55 Taliban in the north-western valley of Swat today, the army said, and lifted a curfew to allow thousands of civilians to flee before troops assail the Taliban-held main town.

Pakistan’s army lifted its curfew in the battle-scarred Swat Valley today, allowing thousands to flee as troops prepared for street-by-street battles with Taliban militants entrenched in the valley’s biggest town.

Refugees gave harrowing accounts of life under the Taliban in Pakistan’s Swat Valley as they swarmed into camps to escape fighting between the army and militants.

PAKISTANI warplanes bombed suspected militant positions in a stronghold close to the capital yesterday, pressing ahead with a fierce offensive that has driven hundreds of thousands from their homes, many into crowded refugee camps.

Tens of thousands of civilians, many on foot or donkey-led carts, took advantage of a lifted curfew to flee Pakistan’s embattled Swat Valley, while the army said it had killed 400 to 500 militants in its battle against the Taliban.

Thousands of fearful civilians, many on foot, fled a war-torn Pakistani valley today to take advantage of a lifted curfew that could precede an even more intense round of fighting between the military and the Taliban.

The Pakistani army said today that its troops killed as many as 55 more Taliban fighters in its offensive to retake a valley in the north west from militants.

Nine people were killed in a suspected US missile strike on a militant stronghold near the Afghan border today, Pakistani officials said.

THOUSANDS of terrified Pakistanis dodged Taliban roadblocks to flee fighting yesterday between the army and insurgents in a northwestern valley, streaming into refugee camps and crowding hospitals with their fatigued and hungry children.

The Taliban blocked roads to stop terrified civilians from fleeing Pakistan’s Swat valley as the army stepped up its assault on the extremists today.

HELICOPTER gunships and mortar teams pounded militant strongholds yesterday, killing dozens outside emerald mines, the military said, as Taliban reinforcements poured down from their mountain hide-outs and seized homes and government buildings.

A huge battle between the Taliban and Pakistani troops erupted in the Swat valley today.

Turbaned Taliban militants seized government buildings, laid mines and fought security forces in the Swat Valley in Pakistan today.