(Swat)

Then I'll do the first, and when you see me start to swat then you start to swat.

I'm not even gonna swat that fly.

And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it.

Hazrat Ali is from a poor farming family in Swat.

And I'm an IDP, an internally displaced person, from Swat.

Improved organization, training, and equipment of paramilitary, SWAT, and military teams.

All swarmed together like flies, just waiting for someone to swat them.

Malala Yousafzai is a teenager from the Swat Valley of Pakistan, a region bordering northeast

I made contact with a child from Swat who studied in a madrassa like this.

And, even if the state succeeds, re asserting control over Swat will only be the first step.

On 12 October 2011, Ghazala filed a petition in the civil court of Asghar in Swat for divorce from Jehangir.

So we tried to come up with a way, as a group, to have a kind of design SWAT team.

You're familiar with these cells because they are the ones that frustrate you when you try to swat the fly.

A similar outcome was observed in Pakistan s Swat Valley after the militant takeover of 2009 rendered the region inaccessible for months.

CAMBRIDGE As its army confronts, ever more bloodily, the Taliban in the Swat Valley, Pakistan is fighting for its very soul.

Ordinary men and women in Swat believe in education, but the Taliban were terrorizing them out of exercising their legal and constitutional rights.

So I hope you think of insects a little bit differently next time, and as I say up here, please think before you swat.

Had it been Pakistan s ethos, the Taliban in Swat wouldn t have needed to blast schools people would have happily pulled their daughters from the schools themselves.

Only one condition should be imposed on aid for Pakistan the first money should be spent on rebuilding all the bombed out girls schools in Swat.

In Pakistan, the awareness workshop on rice was organized at Mingora in Swat, and in Sri Lanka, seminars on the nutritive values of rice were conducted.

First, private news channels broadcast across the country a video clip recorded on a cell phone of the public flogging of a 17 year old Swat girl.

Still, it s not over until it s over and in the short term a lot depends on the state s capacity to hold the Swat area and re establish civilian institutions there.

Eight years and many billions of dollars later, the Pakistani Taliban seized control of the Swat region, terrorizing the adjoining district of Buner and raising alarm and consternation through the rest of Pakistan.

One group, Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) succeeded in attacking a number of military installations, including the army s headquarters in Rawalpindi, and briefly occupied the district of Swat, only 60 miles from Islamabad, the capital.

Islamist groups previous attempt to create such a space was successfully countered by the military in 2009, when it drove insurgent forces from the sensitive district of Swat and the tribal agency of South Waziristan.

A living example of this is Afzal Lala, a Pashtun politician associated with the Awami National Party who, despite all the threats from the bloodthirsty Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan, remained in Swat through the recent fighting.

Kamen is also the co inventor of a compressed air device that would launch a human into the air in order to quickly launch SWAT teams or other emergency workers to the roofs of tall, inaccessible buildings.

CAMBRIDGE As its army confronts, ever more bloodily, the Taliban in the Swat Valley, Pakistan is fighting for its very soul. The army appears to be winning this time around, in marked contrast to its recent half hearted confrontations with Taliban forces in neighboring tribal areas.

The deal, which instituted a version of Sharia law in the region in exchange for a commitment that militants would lay down their weapons, was blessed by the comparatively liberal Awami National Party (ANP), which governs the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), where Swat is located.

A similar outcome was observed in Pakistan s Swat Valley after the militant takeover of 2009 rendered the region inaccessible for months. This month s decision to hold back vaccination in Karachi after health workers there were threatened, though understandable, is nonetheless a cause for serious concern in this respect.

So we decided to see if flies could be provoked into showing the kind of behavior that you see by the proverbial wasp at the picnic table, you know, the one that keeps coming back to your hamburger the more vigorously you try to swat it away, and it seems to keep getting irritated.