PAKISTAN SWAT TALIBAN CRISIS

Swat valley Taliban crisis

epa01712139 Supporters and journalists listen to Maulana Muhammad Alam, (not in the picture, as he considered being photographed as 'un-Islamic'), the deputy chief of outlawed Movement for the Enforcement of Mohammedan Law (TNSM) in the town of Batkhella, Swat valley, Pakistan on 28 April 2009 where Pakistani forces have been engaged in an operation against the Taliban. Pakistani security forces have launched an offensive in Lower Dir district of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on 26 April, after the Taliban began extending their authority in the region which was placed under Islamic sharia law this month as part of a peace pact. The security situation in the region deteriorated last week when militants from the restive Swat district took control of adjoining Buner district, just 100 kilometres from the capital Islamabad. EPA/RASHID IQBAL

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