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TO GO WITH Pakistan-unrest-farm,FOCUS by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
A Pakistani child is seen on a truck loaded with wheat at Chota Lahore camp at Swabi district, some 150 kms northwest of Islamabad on May 21, 2009. Farmers in Pakistan's northwest were preparing for a bumper harvest when a punishing military assault against Taliban fighters sent them fleeing their homes. They fear hardship and hunger as crops spoil in untended fields, with aid agencies warning that it could take years for farmers to recover. Aerial bombardments, shelling and fierce battles between government troops and Islamist insurgents in the rugged northwest have uprooted about 1.5 million from their homes since the onslaught began on April 26. Most of them were farmers who abandoned fields of wheat, maize, vegetables and rice, which now lie rotting as the battles rage. AFP PHOTO/ PEDRO UGARTE
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Swabi, 162, PAKISTAN |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Pedro UGARTE |
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21 Mai 2009 |
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4256 x 2832 (1.07 MB) |
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