Pakistani security forces are holding a journalist in custody and have and detained a security guard at a press club in the Khyber tribal region, a day after a bomb was discovered beneath a car used by four journalists in northwestern Pakistan.
Professor Ajmal Khan says he was well-treated during the four years he was held in Waziristan, and vows to continue promoting education in the tribal regions.
Burnt out homes, destroyed fields, and shattered livelihoods await Pashtun tribespeople from the Tirah Valley who are returning home from Peshawar after intense fighting between the Pakistani army and the Taliban last year forced them to flee.
The tiny Hindu and Sikh minority in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has called on the government to build a cremation ground for their community so they can perform the last rites of their loved ones in line with their ancient traditions.
Twenty-five years after the Soviets left Afghanistan, some of the millions who fled the Soviet-Afghan war still live in refugee camps in Pakistan.
