People flee Pakistan's restive Swat valley after a curfew was temporarily lifted to allow people to leave the intensifying conflictPhotograph: Rashid Iqbal/EPAPeople travel by road as they flee military operations in Swat, Buner and Lower Dir in Malakand, PakistanPhotograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty ImagesDisplaced Pakistanis from Swat and Buner hitch a ride underneath a container truck in MardanPhotograph: Tariq Mahmood/AFP/Getty Images
An internally displaced mother holds her baby as they travel by road fleeing military operations in Swat, Buner and Lower DirPhotograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty ImagesScores of people travel by road as they flee military operationsPhotograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty ImagesResidents flee Mingora, the main town in Pakistan's troubled Swat valley. Thousands of fearful civilians, many on foot or donkey-pulled carts, streamed out of the area as authorities briefly lifted a curfewPhotograph: /APAn internally displaced Pakistani man, fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in troubled Swat valley and Buner, holds up an identity card as he waits in line for relief supplies at a UN High Commissioner for Refugees distribution point at a makeshift camp in Mardan Photograph: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty ImagesA UN High Commissioner for Refugees official at a makeshift camp in Mardan registers displaced men fleeing military operations against Taliban militantsPhotograph: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty ImagesPeople queue for tea and bread at the UNHCR Jalala camp in Takht Bai village in Mardan, PakistanPhotograph: Mian Khursheed/ReutersChildren wait to get food at a refugee camp in Mardan. The UN said 360,600 refugees had fled Swat and the neighbouring Dir and Buner districts since Pakistan's army launched a new offensive against Taliban militants last weekPhotograph: Greg Baker/APA man carries a sack of wheat flour as others wait their turn at a relief camp in Mardan, PakistanPhotograph: Mohammad Sajjad/APPakistani men line up to register at a refugee camp at Swabi, in north-west PakistanPhotograph: Greg Baker/APPakistani boys walk through a refugee camp at Swabi, in north-west PakistanPhotograph: Greg Baker/APA young girl internally displaced by military operations in Lower Dir sorts through her family's belongings in Malakand, PakistanPhotograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
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