The Truth Behind The Alleged 100-Year Tax-Free Promise. Taxation is considered one of the fundamental pillars of any state's ...

Italian archaeologists say they have discovered a cemetery that reveals complex funeral rites dating back more than 3,000 years in Pakistan's Swat valley, recently controlled by the Taliban. The ...

MINGORA, Pakistan -- The worn-out burqa covering her from head to toe fails to conceal Rekhmina's sense of loss and uncertainty. This mother of four has come to the Khpal Kor Foundation, an orphanage ...

Pakistan, July 2 -- A Swat boat accident claimed the lives of five members of the same family after a tourist boat capsized ...

Red agencies/ districts controlled by the Taliban; purple is de facto control; yellow is under threat. Tensions have arisen over the Swat peace agreement signed last month. The central government said ...

Five years after it collapsed under Taliban rule, the once-thriving silk industry in the Swat valley of northwest Pakistan is still in shreds, leaving thousands without work and entrepreneurs like ...

Driving in Pakistan’s Swat valley, a region located close to the border with Afghanistan, I can sense the difference immediately. The faces of young children, women and families who walk around seem ...

Pakistan is deploying alternative methods to deal with the menace of militants. In the scenic Swat Valley in the northwest of the country, the army crushed violent Islamist militants two years ago ...