On the trail of Pakistan's Taliban

A Pakistani soldier stands guard at a military outpost on a mountaintop in Shangla Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Pakistani soldiers manning a foxhole keep watch on a mountaintop in Uchrai Sar Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

An elderly man at the Khyber tribal border carries a placard depicting George Bush as a dog Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Children from Bajur play on equipment provided by the UN at a refugee camp Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

A young girl walks through a refugee camp for internally displaced people fleeing violence in the tribal areas of Peshawar Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Children from Bajur outside their tent Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Children walk through a refugee camp Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Children search through garbage for scrap to sell on a rail line leading into the Khyber agency in Peshawar Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Folders labelled Taliban, al-Qaida and Misc line a shelf in the office of the director general of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency in Islamabad Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Pakistanis and Afghans board a bus leaving for tribal areas and the Afghan border in Peshawar Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Pakistanis and Afghans board a bus leaving for the tribal areas and Afghan border in Peshawar Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Tribal leaders from Waziristan stand in an alleyway in Peshawar Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Labourers shovel rubble from a suite as reconstruction continues at the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, which was attacked in September Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Sadruddin Hashwani stands amid the wreckage at the Marriott Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian

Locals gather for evening prayers in Peshawar Photograph: Warrick Page/Guardian