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Pakistan lifts curfew for residents to flee
The Pakistani Government is lifting a curfew in the northern Swat Valley to allow civilians to leave the area. The Government said the curfew would be lifted for seven hours - from 6:00am until 1:00pm on Sunday (local time) for the residents of two towns, Kambar and Rahimabad.

The authorities said they should leave the area without bringing any weapons with them.
You can't separate Pak men from their guns! Why, that would be un-islamic!
Refugee camps would be set up for them in Pashawar, the capital of the north-west frontier province and in Nashara, to the north-east.

Aid agencies are already stretched to their limits by the number of displaced people.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has described this offensive, which has now reached the region's biggest town Mingora, as a fight for Pakistan's survival.

One man says he has had to flee his home three times this year, but he does not understand what is causing the conflict. "We are ordinary religious. We don't know what the cause of fight between army and Taliban. What is going on between them?" he asked. "Sometimes they have a ceasefire, sometimes they start fighting again, and we the ordinary people are suffering."
"It's the same old, same old, all the time. Cheez, I dunno. Hey Moshe, another round ..."
Pakistani helicopter gunships and war planes hit Taliban positions in the Swat Valley bastion on Saturday, but a curfew prevented civilians from fleeing the fighting. The military said up to 55 militants were killed in the day's clashes and four soldiers were wounded, but the figures could not be independently confirmed.
Posted by: Oztralian 2009-05-10
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