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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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.

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.

But the Taliban s assurances of a lower profile were upended by two incidents that exposed its real face. 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.

Despite all the stakeholders Pakistan s army and government, as well as Western countries knowing the scale of recent army action in Swat and Buner, millions of innocent people were left to fend for themselves as bombs rained down on them from the sky. They were not evacuated.

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 training methods used include slide presentations and exercises using different tools and computer models such as the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), the Decision Support System for Agro technology Transfer (DSSAT) and MARA Lite (Malaria mapping) to elaborate the different topics of the workshop.

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.

There is a vast number of important Buddhist sites in Swat and other areas of northwest Pakistan. At this point, all of them are under threat of destruction, thanks to the influential voice of the Islamist leader Mullah Fazlullah, whose father in law, Sufi Mohammad, founded one of the extremist orders.

Most significantly, in the face of martial law and political assassination, Pakistanis have not given up their dream of democracy. 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.

This round of fighting was preceded by a negotiated calm, as the government sought to quell militants in Pakistan s tribal areas by striking a deal with the Taliban leader, Sufi Mohammad. 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.