Week of May 16, 2009
Swat Refugee CampsSafiyya, 7, and her siblings inside the family tent in the Kacha Garhi camp. Photo: Naheed Mustafa.
Description
The fighting continues to rage in Pakistan's Swat Valley and neighboring districts, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Tens of thousands of them are now living in makeshift camps in the small towns between Swat and Peshawar. Reporter Naheed Mustafa, a freelance journalist based in Toronto, Canada, traveled to one of the largest camps just outside Peshawar and brings us this Reporter's Notebook.