The battle to drive insurgents from the Swat Valley has left refugees fearing they may never return home. Nick Meo reports from Pakistan's North West Frontier province for The Daily Telegraph.
When the Pakistani Army began moving its tanks and artillery for a major offensive against the Taliban in the area around the Swat Valley, Miraj Khan found himself caught between two foes.
The farmer had been praying for deliverance from the black-turbaned gunmen for months, but liberation did not come quite as he hoped. When army shells came crashing into his village last week, he was forced to cram his family and possessions into a van and flee from the path of his would-be rescuers.
Continues at: telegraph.co.uk - Villagers trapped between Taliban and Pakistan's war machine
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