Trapped Residents Emerge, Seek Food In Swat Town (ap)

A Pakistani displaced man walks through the Chota Lahore refugee camp, at Swabi, in northwest Pakistan, Friday, May 29, 2009. The U.N. humanitarian chief issued a desperate appeal for hundreds of millions of dollars to help 2.4 million Pakistanis who have fled the war against Taliban militants, warning that the U.N. can only sustain its current aid efforts for one month. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP – People trapped at home for weeks emerged in search of food at barren shops while corpses lay exposed in the Swat Valley’s main city Sunday, as a Pakistani official suggested the army offensive against the Taliban in the region could end in days.

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