Swat's

The government offensives, the militants, the landowners and the United States 'insistence on crushing the Taliban have all made life extremely difficult for Swat's residents.

Kathy Kelly: Pressured from All Sides in Pakistan's Swat Valley 2010

Swat's hillsides are a dazzling emerald green, with terraced fields of wheat and fruit orchards adorning the peaks that have earned the area a reputation as the Switzerland of Asia.

U.S. builds goodwill with quick assistance in Pakistani flooding 2010

Twenty-five percent of Swat's rich croplands are lost five weeks into the disaster.

Pakistani Flood Victims Cope Without Bridges, Aid 2010

After a breathtaking ride through the Hindu Kush mountains, traveling in a pick-up truck from Shah Mansour in the Swabi district, we arrived in Swat's capital, Saidu Sharif.

Kathy Kelly: Pressured from All Sides in Pakistan's Swat Valley 2010

Electricity plants were destroyed, along with hotels for the tourists who frequent Swat's beauty spots.

Hope And Surprises After Pakistan Floods AP 2010

Twenty-five percent of Swat's rich croplands are lost five weeks into the disaster.

Pakistani Flood Victims Cope Without Bridges, Aid 2010

The announcement came after militant leader Maulana Fazlullah convened a consultative council in Swat's Matta district.

Taliban Declares Indefinite Ceasefire in Swat, Releasing Prisoners 2009

"Hundreds of people fled Swat's main town of Mingora on Tuesday after the military urged residents to seek safety as fresh fighting with Taliban militants could erupt," daily Dawn reported on May 6.

Madiha Sattar: More Clarity Needed About Pakistan's Swat Operation 2009

Or as Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., put it in an op-ed piece in USA Today on Thursday: "We are attempting to drive a wedge between Al Qaeda and the militant Taliban on the one hand, and Swat's indigenous movement that seeks to restore traditional [Sharia] law in the district."

Holbrooke’s Dayton II? 2009

And in what amounts to the collective punishment of the entire Pashtun people, the worst refugee crisis since Rwanda got under way, with over two million people, the majority of Swat's population, forced to flee their homes from the US-financed and equipped Pakistani Armyafter a week of intense aerial bombardment by bombers, jet fighters and helicopter gunships.

PASHTUNISTAN (or Oh Well, at Least They Won't Get the Nukes) 2009