By Abubakar Siddique

Abdullah, a middle-aged farmer from Swat's Matta region, left his apple and peach orchards in their sleepy mountain hamlet two months ago, and moved to a city in the neighboring region of Hazara. In doing so, Abdullah and his family of 10 joined the estimated 3 million people who have been forced to flee their homes since 2004, when Pakistan's western ethnic-Pashtun borderlands turned into a battleground for the military and extremists. Abdullah was part of the largest and most recent exodus of some 2 million people, which resulted from the military operation launched against Taliban militants in the Swat Valley and Malakand region two months ago.

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