Sher Zaman, 50, squeezed 10 people into his LPG-powered auto-rickshaw on his flight from Swat Valley to the city of Mardan. More than two million refugees poured out of Swat Valley as th army launched a massive offensive on Taliban militants in early May 2009. The exodus of refugees is the Pakistan's largest since the Partition in 1947.
(taken 05/20/09)
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