Internally displaced children at a UN camp in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. Photo: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy alertnet.org
Millions of people in Pakistan are facing a fight for survival after conflict forced them to flee their homes.
The UN refugee agency is describing the scale of the displacement as the most dramatic since the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Vast numbers of civilians need food, water and other basics following their escape from an offensive by the country's military against the Taleban in North West Frontier Province.
Homes and businesses lie in ruins in the Swat Valley, which is at the centre of the conflict, and many people are living in displacement camps.
The fighting has come at the height of the crop growing season and prompted fears about food shortages this winter and into next year.
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