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 ...

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 ...

Buner, the district 60 miles north of Islamabad whose fall to the Taliban last month sparked alarmed American warnings about the future of Pakistan, has been substantially wrestled from militant hands ...

PESHAWAR: In restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, one district stands out in its treatment of the Sikh community. Followers of Guru Nanak are thriving in Buner, when elsewhere in the country minorities seem to ...

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 ...

A two-day Elum Winter Festival concluded in Buner organized in collaboration with Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps North Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. These areas were the center of operations of terrorists for ...

Flooding in a northwest Pakistani district has killed at least 220 people, officials said Saturday, as rescuers pulled 63 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BUNER Taliban militants from Swat took control of Buner on Tuesday and started patrolling bazaars, villages and towns in the district. The militants, who had sneaked into Gokand valley of Buner on ...

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 ...