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Pakistan: a long way to go but Which way?

Posted: May 24, 2009 Sun 05:28 pm     Views: 217    Interacts: 0

A long way to go



Women travel by a donkey-led-cart with grass for feeding livestock out of the main road to the Swat valley region in Mardan, about 150 km (85 miles) north-west of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, May 24, 2009. Street fighting erupted in the main town of Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday as security forces mounted a new phase of their offensive against Taliban militants, the military said. Nearly 1.7 million people have been displaced by the Swat offensive while about 555,000 people had been forced from their homes by earlier fighting in the region.


Which way?



Internally displaced women, fleeing a military offensive in the Swat valley region, walk through the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Jalozai camp wearing their burqas,


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