KALAM, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Kalam may have been rid of Taliban rebels only days ago, but there are trout in the streams, the peaks are pristine and — God willing the locals say – tourists will soo ...
One of the most vivid memories Yasir Nisar has of his 2005 honeymoon is of the “Western” clothes his new bride Cayyada wore as she bundled up in Pakistan’s frigid mountain temperatures. For more than ...
A Pakistani man who was visiting the country's Swat Valley as a tourist on June 20 was beaten to death and his body set on fire by an angry mob after he was accused of blasphemy. The mob severely beat ...
Italian archaeologists, working with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Archaeology, have discovered eight new ancient sites from Swat to Taxila. The findings, including a 1,200-year-old ...
In the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, on the bank of the river that courses through the Swat Valley, boys play soccer in a dusty field. When the Pakistani Taliban occupied this valley a decade ...