Taliban fighters are reportedly using terrified civilians as human shields today as fierce fighting tore through Pakistan's north-west frontier.Militants blocked roads with rocks and trees as the the army stepped up a ferocious ground and air assault.
The military had relaxed a blanket curfew in the area, which should have allowed many thousands to escape the Swat Valley, the frontline in a bloody conflict between extremists and the government.
But witnesses said civilians were forced to dodge blockades as well as bullets as the Taliban resorted to increasingly desperate tactics.
Ayaz Khan, 39, from the Kanju area of Swat, said he had attempted to flee with his family by car but found that the road was blocked by rocks, boulders and tree trunks.He was forced to turn back. 'I am helpless, frustrated and worried for my family,' he said in a phone call.
On the streets of Mingora, Swat's capital, witnesses reported seeing heavily armed Taliban fighters roaming the streets as residents cowered in their homes.
One health worker said she had been warned to stay inside by militants.
'During the whole of last night, I heard firing, and again this morning,' said the woman, who would only give her first name, Maryam.
'I don't know when some weapon will hit our home and kill us.'
Wow, muslims using their own people as human shields? Noooo, say it ain't so. No one at the UN is going to say anything about this because it is muslims killing other muslims. Unlike with hamas and hezbullah being killed by Israel.
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