Pakistan Civil War News Updates -- May 26, 2009


Pakistanis In Swat "Face Catastrophe"; Clashes Spread -- Yahoo News/Reuters

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Pakistani civilians trapped by an offensive against the Taliban in Swat face catastrophe, a rights group said on Tuesday, as fighting flared in another militant-plagued region.

The offensive in the Taliban bastion of Swat, about 120 km (80 miles) northwest of Islamabad, is the military's most concerted effort to roll back a spreading Taliban insurgency that has thrown the nuclear-armed country's future into question.

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