Sad Story of IDPs - I

An exhausted mother from Swat, Rawasia, watches over her children as they sleep on the floor of a classroom at a primary school in Baghdada, Mardan. Rawazia and her extended family fled from their village with only the clothes on their backs when their home was damaged in a mortar attack

With the camps full to capacity, newly arrived refugees are sometimes forced to drive from site to site in search of shelter. Many find places in public buildings.

Packed tightly into the back of a pick-up truck, women and children arrive at a reception centre in Katland village. Many people fleeing Swat must break the military curfew in order to escape. During the hours people are permitted to leave, heavy traffic often prevents them from going anywhere.

Row upon row of white tents make up Sheikh Shehzad camp, home to thousands of displaced families fleeing the violence in Swat and Buner

After seeing her neighbours killed in a mortar attack on Mingora, a mother of five fled to Jalala camp where she rests along with her extended family.