Mardan (NWFP, Pakistan), May 25 : Sixtenn-year-old Aleema has restarted her education after it was stopped due to life threats from Taliban bombing of a girls’ schools in Swat valley.

“I was a student of Class 9 at Girls’ Higher Secondary School at Kabal. Taliban first issued threatening letters to our school and then blown it up on September 2008,” Aleema told Daily Times.

Aleema said that she has now come to a tent school set up by Society for Awareness and Relief (STAR), a Swabi-based non-government organisation providing high school level education in relief camps.

Mardan (Pakistan), May 25 : The Pakistan Government appears to be hard pressed in trying to contain the refugee crisis emanating from the military offensive against the Taliban and other extremist groups in the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

According to the Washington Post, the government has been overwhelmed by the human tide that has washed over the northwest, as about two million people have fled fierce clashes in the Swat.

Mardan, May 12: The number of refugees fleeing from the Sawt Valley in northwestern Pakistan lifted to 1.3 million people after the Pakistani Army dropped commandos behind Taliban lines to end their resistance.

The army offensive has also unleashed a tide of refugees, whose plight could sap public support for the kind of sustained action against an increasingly interlinked array of Islamist extremists that the cash-strapped Pakistan''s Western backers want to see.

Mardan (NWFP, Pakistan), May 7: Over 22,000 refugees have asked for help in the Mardan area of Pakistan’s strife-hit North West Frontier Province alone, and most of them in the past 10 days.

Thousands of people are reported to have queued up outside a hospital in Mardan, reports the New York Times.

They piled into the hospital courtyard, then into the hospital itself, moving down the hallways, sitting on the floors. It was mostly men who came but women did, too, nearly all of them lost and bewildered and wondering what fate awaited them next.

Mardan(Pakistan) Apr. 17 : Two women were reportedly killed in separate incidents here, The Dawn reported.

According to sources, an NGO employee Mumtaz Begum was killed in a bomb blast in the office of the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in the Hattian village of the region.

Local Taliban leader Habibur Rehman while claiming the responsibility for the attack, accused the NGO of propagating obscenity and vulgarity.

Rehman threatened of such attacks in future also.

Mardan (Pakistan), Mar 19 : Hundreds of compact disks (CDs) dealers in Mardan District have been forced to discontinue their business following the militant attacks on various shops in the area.

A mini-survey conducted by ''''''''The News'''''''' revealed that so far over 100 music and CD shops had been blown up in various areas of the district.

Mardan (NWFP), May 6 : Following fresh attacks by the Taliban on government installations over the past few weeks in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), residents of Mardan district fear of such attacks on them as well if the new provincial government failed to reach a peace agreement with the Taliban in Swat and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

The Taliban had resumed attacks on government installations, especially police stations, in Mardan which is the home district of NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, say the residents here