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...thunderous assault grew closer, Khan and his wife fled, hiding for hours in the nearby forest. When daylight broke, they scaled the hills and made their way to Shewa Adda, a village near the town of Swabi. "My daughter was born four days after we arrived," says Khan. The camp, now home to 500 families like the Khans, has been named after her: Aman, the Urdu word for peace. (Watch TIME's video "The Challenge on the Ground in Afghanistan...
...people from this region. When the recent military offensive began, the Tarakais' operation started to cook food and take it to the people from Buner staying with communities in Swabi that were hosting the refugees. "When those areas became full," says Tarakai, "we set up our own camps. Today we are setting up the 11th camp." Each day brings new arrivals to the camps dotted among the vast stretches of land belonging to the Tarakais, where the family grows sugarcane, wheat, corn and very lucrative quantities of tobacco. The family also operates power projects and recently acquired the Pakistan franchise...
...even here, refugees are facing difficulties seen elsewhere in the northwest. Though the camp tents are well protected against heat and even have fans inside, daytime temperatures nudge past the 100? mark. The people of Buner and Swat - who are more accustomed to cool mountain air - are suffering from dehydration, skin rashes, diarrhea and the mounting threat of disease. Dust has caused respiratory infections, and there are widespread psychiatric problems, doctors visiting the camps report. Aman's mother was one of 66,000 pregnant woman estimated by the U.N. to be among the displaced. A few tragically lost their babies...
...army and the Taliban continue to battle each other street by street. In recent days, the army has claimed a flurry of successes: recapturing key intersections in Mingora, retaking Pakistan's only ski resort at Malam Jabba (which was being used by the Taliban as a training camp and logistics base) and clearing the former militant stronghold of Matta. Militants are now reportedly retreating from Mingora to Kabal. The army has made a push toward Kabal, but it says it is facing "stiff resistance" there. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...
...Back at Aman camp, Liaqat Tarakai inspects a building that once served as a storage facility for his tobacco. "I am going to make this into a hospital," he says. "We will have a ward, equipment, everything." But even he realizes there are limits on how much he can do, and for how long. The army claims to have cleared much of Buner and has begun to call residents back. In the coming weeks, Aman's parents may be able to take their baby home. "But the Swatis will be staying," says Tarakai, "for some time...