SWAT DISTRICT, Pakistan, April 30 (UNHCR) - Almost a year after the onset of conflict forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee northern Pakistan's Swat Valley and surrounding areas, most of ...
This time the line of vehicles snaking for miles down the sweltering valley — small cars packed with families and large trucks heaving with livestock and furniture — are not fleeing; the refugees from ...
In the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, on the bank of the river that courses through the Swat Valley, boys play soccer in a dusty field. When the Pakistani Taliban occupied this valley a decade ...