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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Two days before his wedding, Noor Muhammad had a long phone call with his mother, just hours before devastating floods in Pakistan killed her along with 23 family members and relatives. "I cannot ...

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 ...

PESHAWAR: The Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), under its welfare initiative, organised a free-medical camp in the flood-affected area of Pir Baba, Buner. During the camp, around 500 male and female ...

BUNER: In a heartbreaking turn of events, floods in Buner have claimed the lives of 24 family members and relatives, including Noor Muhammad’s mother, siblings, and children. The disaster struck just ...

Dr Saveera Parkash is set to be the first woman minority candidate to stand in the forthcoming general elections from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Buner district after submitting her nomination papers for the ...

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 ...

Islamabad: Some heavily armed Taliban militants who entered the strategic Buner district near the Pakistani capital from SWAT valley are still in the area despite a deal with local authorities for ...

London: Taliban militants were holding 2,000 people in Buner district of restive North West Frontier Province in Pakistan to use them as human shields in case the army attacked. Taliban's move came as ...