Sentences with phrase «swat valley»

This is one of the first community based cross sectional surveys in Swat valley, Pakistan to assess the prevalence of psychological distress during pregnancy in an area affected by conflict.

This is one of the first community based cross sectional survey in Swat valley, Pakistan to assess the prevalence of psychological distress during pregnancy in an area affected by conflict.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters)-- Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday for the first time since she was shot by a Taliban gunman as a...

Instead I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley.

May 8, 2018 • A dozen lawyers are helping other women in the Swat Valley with divorce, custody and inheritance cases.

As a reporter with a Pakistani newspaper, The Nation, I covered the rise of Taliban in Kandahar and its spill - over into Pakistan's Swat Valley in the mid-90s.

As the outside world proceeds to withdraw its combat forces from Afghanistan, and rushes to reconcile with the Taliban to smooth along an exit, it can learn a valid lesson from Pakistan's experience with the Taliban in Swat Valley.

In January 2009, Pakistan's Swat valley was fully under the control of a Taliban affiliate, Tehrik - e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), and its leader Sufi Muhammad had issued a decree banning female education in the area.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters)- Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday for the first time since she was shot by a Taliban gunman as a teenager, two security officials and a family friend said.

A fierce and outspoken defender of a female's right to education, the Swat Valley schoolgirl was shot by them four years later aboard her school bus.

Shahid ended up organizing a camp that summer in Islamabad, about three hours south of the Swat Valley, for Malala and 26 other young girls.

The first grants went to girls in Swat Valley who used to work to help their family make money, freeing them up to attend school.

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

She lived in a small village in Pakistan that was invaded by the Taliban, and at age 11 she utilized a cell phone to call a BBC reporter who wrote up a blog that would bring awareness to unknown atrocities being committed in her area, the Swat Valley.

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While fear gripped the entire valley, Malala Yousafzai, an eleven years old girl from Swat's Mingora town, began telling the world her innocent tales of surviving the Taliban's ban on education.

Malala sought refuge outside Swat along with her family, like thousands of other families who had fled the valley to escape the vengeance of the Taliban and collateral damage from the army operation.

He has taught organizations ranging from Maui Writers, to Whidbey Island Writers, to San Diego State University, to the University of Georgia, to the Romance Writers of America National Convention, to Boston SWAT, the CIA, Fortune - 500, the Royal Danish Navy Frogman Corps, Microsoft, Rotary, IT Teams in Silicon Valley and many others.