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Pakistan military said Monday, it had killed 1,592 militants in northwest Pakistan in operations launched since April. Some images of the militants bodies were released by military on the insistence of media persons.

At least 11 people were killed, two of them foreigners, in a suicide bombing at Peshawar’s Pearl Continental five-star hotel late Tuesday, officials and police said.

More than 50 people were also injured the dare devil attack on one of the prime targets of Taliban militants, in the capital of North West Frontier Province, who are losing a bloody conflict in Pakistani tribal areas and northwestern Swat valley.

A suicide bomber Saturday killed at least two policemen and wounded six others in an attack on rescue police centre in Islamabad, police said.

The attack comes as Pakistani military battles Taliban militants in Malakand division, which also includes the restive Swat valley. The conflict has left nearly three million people homeless, now residing in tents in hot weather.

The military also announced the deaths of a spokesman and deputy leader of Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) during an attck on a military convoy in northwest Pakistan on Saturday.

Pakistanis continue to leave the areas of conflict between government forces and militants in search of refuge in Mardan, Charsadda, Swabi and Nowshera districts of North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Some 18,000
families — about 126,000 people — are registered on average every day in these districts.

According to provincial government authorities, the number of displaced people from the Swat, Lower Dir and Buner districts registered in a fast track process since 2 May has now reached over 2.38 million people. However, these figures are being cross-checked and verified in a second-stage process, and may change. Continue reading Pakistan IDPs number swells to 2.38m

The Pakistani authorities should immediately lift a 24-hour curfew in place since May 18 in the Swat valley and adjoining areas of the Malakand Division of Pakistan’s Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA), Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

Severe shortages of food, water and medicine are creating a major humanitarian crisis for the hundreds of thousands of civilians still trapped in the region where Pakistani armed forces are fighting Taliban insurgents, it said in a statement issued from New York. Continue reading HR Watch calls for lifting curfew from Swat