A man returning to the Swat Valley region sits atop a truck with hundreds of other vehicles looking to cross a check-point in Malakand district, about 170 km (106 miles) north west by road of Pakistan's capital Islamabad on July 17, 2009. [Agencies]

Buses and trucks carrying the internally displaced back to their homes in the Swat Valley region line-up at the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Jalozai camp, about 140 km (87 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad on July 17, 2009. [Agencies]