The United Nations says hundreds of thousands of people are being displaced by the latest fighting in Swat and other parts of North West Frontier province.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Former chief minister of the North West Frontier Province, Akram Khan Durrani, criticized the government's use of lashkars in an interview with VOA.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

She says many children in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan have been forcibly recruited by the militants and allegedly trained to become informants, fighters or suicide bombers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The two sides have fought deadly naval clashes in 1999 and 2002 in the disputed maritime region west of the peninsula, where the North has always rejected a sea border drawn by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15