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...born just days after her parents fled last month's fighting in the Buner valley. As the Pakistani military moved in to push back against Taliban fighters edging closer to the capital, the family traveled in the opposite direction, across the mountains that form a backdrop to the camp in which they now live. They are among an estimated 2.4 million Pakistanis who have been displaced, marking a refugee crisis on a scale comparable to the mass flight from Rwanda in the 1990s. "It took us more than 24 hours to get here," says Roedad Khan, Aman's father. "Half...
...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...
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