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 ...

Anna Husarska is senior policy advisor at the International Rescue Committee. WRITING FROM MINGORA, PAKISTAN — The drawing shows three boys in traditional Pakistani long shirts, shalwar kameez ...

In 2008, the Taliban took control of the northwest Pakistan Swat Valley. They imposed a ban on girls' education. I was working for the BBC and floated an idea that I would like to start a diary ...

In Pakistan’s Swat Valley, a girls’ school is gripped by fear. ... the Swat Valley's largest town, says the attack Oct. 9 was an aberration, not an indication of resurgent militancy.

Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist and Nobel laureate known for her advocacy of girls’ education and women’s rights was ...

Malala celebrates her birthday on July 12, which is also designated as World Malala Day to honour her legacy, brave and role ...

Pakistani female education activist Malala Yousafzai`s life has been extremely inspirational not only for people in her ...

The Taliban, who had taken over the Swat area, had also introduced their own version of strict Shariah law and strictly opposed women's education and girls attending school. It was they who shot ...

A dozen lawyers are helping other women in the Swat Valley with divorce, custody and inheritance cases. Some of the women lawyers defied the Taliban to study law and continue to endure threats.

Pakistani Taliban insurgents blew up four schools in the northwestern Swat region on Monday hours after a cabinet minister vowed that the government would reopen schools in the violence-plagued ...

MINGORA, Pakistan — Nearly three months after Pakistan retook the Swat Valley from the Taliban, bloodied corpses are still turning up on the streets. This time, the victims are suspected ...