A makeshift chair lift with people on board crosses the Swat river on the outskirts of Mingora, Swat Valley. The chair lift begins across the Swat river near the former headquarters of the Taliban who where driven from Swat in a military operation in 2009. -Photo by AP
Swat River. -Photo by AFP
People sit near a sculpture of the Buddha whose face was destroyed by Taliban fighters at Jahanabad, in the Swat valley. –Photo by AP
Internally displaced persons returning to Swat. –Photo by AP
Farmer Painda Khan, uncle of Attaullah, who is being accused of shooting Malala Yousufzai a year ago, makes his way down from his family house in Ghawari Mastas, Swat Valley, Pakistan. In a rare interview to the AP, Attaullah’s uncle, Painda Khan mumbled: “We don’t know why people are blaming him. No one has told us why.” -Photo by AP
The history and transformation of Pakistan over the decades is, in many ways, reflected in the evolution of Pakistan’s artistic and architectural landscape.
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