![Men with their identity cards [Photo credit: REUTERS/Ali Imam, courtesy alertnet.org]](images/200509/swat12_cards_94.jpg "Men with identity cards [Photo credit: REUTERS/Ali Imam, courtesy alertnet.org]")
Men hold their identification cards for a photograph, while standing in line for food rations at a United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) camp in the outskirts of Peshawar, May 15, 2009.
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![A family sitting on a truck, fleeing the Swat valley [Photo credit: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy alertnet.org]](images/200509/swat10_car_94.jpg "A family sitting on a truck, fleeing the Swat valley [Photo credit: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy alertnet.org]")
A family sits in a truck with their possessions as they flee a military offensive in the Swat valley approaching Dargai, Malakand district, about 165 km (100 miles) north west of Islamabad, 16 May 2009.
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Children queue for tea at a distribution centre at the UNHCR camp in Mardan, 16 May 2009. Pakistani authorities temporarily lifted a curfew on Friday 15 May to enable thousands of people to flee the fighting in the militant bastion of Swat and join more than 800,000 who have already left.
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A woman washes dishes at a creek running alongside a UNHCR camp in Pakistan's Swabi district, about 120 km (75 miles) north west of Islamabad, 15 May 2009.
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Children wait for classes to open at a school inside a UNHCR camp in Pakistan's Swabi district, 15 May 15 2009.
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![Evacuees from the Swat valley look for rides [Photo credit: REUTERS/Ali Imam, courtesy alertnet.org]](images/200509/swat15_hitch_94.jpg "Evacuees from the Swat valley look for rides [Photo credit: REUTERS/Ali Imam, courtesy alertnet.org]")
Evacuees from the Swat valley look for rides in the outskirts of Peshawar on 14 May 2009. Pakistan will defeat the Taliban militarily but could lose the public relations war if it fails to help the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the fighting, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday.
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A girl carries bread from a distribution point for her family at an UNHCR camp in Mardan, 16 May 2009.
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A boy sits with his mother as he waits for food at a roadside stall in Mardan, May 18, 2009. Members of a Pakistani Islamist charity on a U.N. terrorist watch list are helping tens of thousands of refugees displaced by an army offensive against Taliban militants, aid officials said on Friday.
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Men build a shelter at a UNHCR camp in the outskirts of Peshawar, 17 May 2009.
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A girl waits for tea at a UNHCR camp in Mardan, 17 May 2009. On Sunday the Pakistani government urged people stranded in Swat to flee whenever they get a chance, as security forces battled Taliban militants in one of their strongholds in the valley.
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Residents carrying their possessions flee a military offensive against the Taliban in the Buner district, about 190 km (119 miles) north west of Islamabad, 17 May 2009.
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A family share a bowl of rice at an UNHCR camp in the outskirts of Peshawar, 15 May 2009. UNHCR says Pakistan needs massive international help for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting in the Swat valley to avert a tragedy.
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![A family sitting on a truck, fleeing the Swat valley [Photo credit: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy alertnet.org]](images/200509/swat10_car_665.jpg "A family sitting on a truck, fleeing the Swat valley [Photo credit: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy alertnet.org]")
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![A woman washes dishes in a creek [Photo credit: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy alertnet.org]](images/200509/swat13_washingup_665.jpg "A woman washes dishes in a creek [Photo credit: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy alertnet.org]")
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![Evacuees from the Swat valley look for rides [Photo credit: REUTERS/Ali Imam, courtesy alertnet.org]](images/200509/swat15_hitch_665.jpg "Evacuees from the Swat valley look for rides [Photo credit: REUTERS/Ali Imam, courtesy alertnet.org]")
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![A boy waits with his mother [Photo credit: REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood, courtesy alertnet.org]](images/200509/swat2_fence_665.jpg "A boy waits with his mother [Photo credit: REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood, courtesy alertnet.org]")
![Men build a shelter [Photo credit: REUTERS/Ali Imam, courtesy alertnet.org]](images/200509/swat3_roof_665.jpg "Men build a shelter [Photo credit: REUTERS/Ali Imam, courtesy alertnet.org]")
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