A child carries a bowl of hot food past others lining up to get theirs in a refugee camp near Mardan in northwest Pakistan, Saturday, May 9, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of residents have fled fighting in the northwestern Swat Valley area after a new military offensive began against Taliban militants.
Battleground
A resident of Buner in Pakistan's Swat valley looks back at destruction caused by fighting between Taliban militants and government security forces on Friday, May 8, 2009. Encouraged by the U.S., Pakistan's leaders launched the full-scale offensive this week to halt the spread of Taliban control in districts within 60 miles of the capital Islamabad.
Patrol
Pakistan army soldiers patrol a road to Pakistan's troubled Swat valley, where security forces are fighting Taliban militants, at Dargai, 56 miles from Peshawar, on Friday, May 8, 2009. The army said it is reinforcing the 12,000-15,000 troops in Swat as they take on militants.
Suffering
Pakistani doctors treat a local resident injured in violence in Mingora, capital of Pakistan's Swat Valley, on Friday, May 8, 2009. Witness accounts indicated that scores of civilians have already been killed or injured in the escalating clashes in Swat and neighboring Buner and Lower Dir districts.
Hospital
Ghafar Khan, who was injured by shell fragments during fighting in the northwest Buner District a month ago, cries in a hospital in Mardan, Saturday, May 9, 2009. Ghafar and his brother, Akhter Ali Khan (right), were recently brought to Mardan by their parents as fighting intensified.
Tents
A view of a camp set up in Mardan for people fleeing the Swat valley. Hundreds of thousands of terrified residents have fled, adding a humanitarian emergency to the nuclear-armed nation's security, economic and political problems.
Registration
Refugees from Swat register at a camp in Mardan, Friday May 8, 2009. Residents still trapped by the fighting in Swat appealed the government for a pause in the offensive so they could escape as well.
Refugee
A child sits with his mother in a car at a refugee camp near Mardan, in northwest Pakistan, Saturday, May 9, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of residents have fled fighting in the northwestern Swat Valley area after a new military offensive began against Taliban militants.
Hot Tea
Children wait to receive hot tea at a refugee camp near Mardan, May 8, 2009.
Teapots
Young boys hold teapots as they line up to receive hot tea at a refugee camp near Mardan, May 9, 2009.
Displaced
Pakistani women internally displaced from the Swat Valley participate in a rally demanding the government provide better humanitarian assistance to them, Saturday, May 9, 2009.
Anti-Taliban
A member of a Pakistani civil society waves a national flag along with others chanting anti-Taliban slogans during a rally in Islamabad on Saturday, May 9, 2009. Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that the army could only be successful in its fight against militants if there was public support for it.
Anti-U.S.
A supporter of a Pakistani religious party holds an anti-American poster during a rally in Peshawar on Friday, May 8, 2009.
Fight For Survival
People rally in Peshawar on Friday, May 8, 2009, demanding peace in the Swat Valley. Pakistan's prime minister described the offensive launched this week in Swat as a "war of the country's survival."