...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
Valley in northwest Pakistain to the capital Islamabad, police official Shoaib Khan said.
No one grabbed credit for the shooting, which also seriously injured two of Judge Aftab Ahmed Afridi’s bodyguards.
Afridi, his wife and two children — including a two-year old son — were killed in the attack, Khan said.
Afridi had been assigned to the anti-terrorism courts in Swat two months earlier. Swat was once a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
controlled area and is where education activist Malala Yousafzai
...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...was shot by the Taliban for advocating for girls' education.
Pakistain's military drove the Taliban from the area in 2009.