Mingora: Doctors are rushing to treat wounded Pakistani civilians and desperate refugees have looted UN supplies, as thousands of troops backed by bomb-dropping warplanes sought to purge Taliban militants from a northwestern valley.
Pakistan's leaders launched a full-scale offensive in the Swat Valley this week to halt the spread of Taliban control.
But the fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of terrified residents to flee.
On Saturday, medics at the hospital in Swat's main town, Mingora, were working at full stretch to deal with dozens of residents caught up in the fighting.
There were scuffles Saturday between police and dwellers of one of the still-crude camps mushrooming around the city of Mardan, just south of the war zone.
