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Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:14 PM

A female supporter of Tahirul Qadri, a Sufi cleric and the leader of the Awami Tehreek political party, wears a badge with his portrait during a protest in Karachi, condemning Tuesday's deaths of their party's workers in Lahore June 19, 2014. At least eight people including a policeman were killed and dozens wounded in Lahore on Tuesday when protesters clashed with police in a standoff over the Canada-based anti-Taliban preacher. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:07 PM

Female supporters of Tahirul Qadri, a Sufi cleric and the leader of the Awami Tehreek political party, hold his portrait during a protest in Karachi, condemning Tuesday's deaths of their party's workers in Lahore June 19, 2014. At least eight people including a policeman were killed and dozens wounded in Lahore on Tuesday when protesters clashed with police in a standoff over the Canada-based anti-Taliban preacher. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:27 PM

A soldier stands guard as a tractor carrying refugees fleeing the military offensive against the Pakistani militants in North Waziristan, drives past a checkpoint in Bannu, located in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province June 19, 2014. Their belongings piled up high on rickety buses, donkey carts and tractors, thousands of refugees poured out of Pakistan's North Waziristan on Thursday, terrified by both state troops and Taliban insurgents fighting for control of the troubled region. Pakistan announced the start of a full-on military offensive on Sunday to quash an increasingly assertive Taliban insurgency in the tribal ethnic Pashtun region where some of the region's most feared al Qaeda-linked militants are based. REUTERS/Ihsan Khattak (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:27 PM

A soldier gestures as he stands beside his comrade in a vehicle headed toward North Waziristan, from Bannu, June 19, 2014. Their belongings piled up high on rickety buses, donkey carts and tractors, thousands of refugees poured out of Pakistan's North Waziristan on Thursday, terrified by both state troops and Taliban insurgents fighting for control of the troubled region. Pakistan announced the start of a full-on military offensive on Sunday to quash an increasingly assertive Taliban insurgency in the tribal ethnic Pashtun region where some of the region's most feared al Qaeda-linked militants are based. REUTERS/Ihsan Khattak (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:27 PM

Refugees, who fled the military offensive against the Pakistani militants in North Waziristan, sit where they slept rough overnight in Bannu, located in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province June 19, 2014. Their belongings piled up high on rickety buses, donkey carts and tractors, thousands of refugees poured out of Pakistan's North Waziristan on Thursday, terrified by both state troops and Taliban insurgents fighting for control of the troubled region. Pakistan announced the start of a full-on military offensive on Sunday to quash an increasingly assertive Taliban insurgency in the tribal ethnic Pashtun region where some of the region's most feared al Qaeda-linked militants are based. REUTERS/Zahid Mohammad (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:02 PM

Families fleeing the military offensive against the Pakistani militants in North Waziristan, arrive in Bannu, located in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province June 19, 2014. Their belongings piled up high on rickety buses, donkey carts and tractors, thousands of refugees poured out of Pakistan's North Waziristan on Thursday, terrified by both state troops and Taliban insurgents fighting for control of the troubled region. Pakistan announced the start of a full-on military offensive on Sunday to quash an increasingly assertive Taliban insurgency in the tribal ethnic Pashtun region where some of the region's most feared al Qaeda-linked militants are based. REUTERS/Zahid Mohammad (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 11:59 AM

A soldier keeps watch over over trucks carrying refugees fleeing the military offensive against the Pakistani militants in North Waziristan, while entering in Bannu, located in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province June 19, 2014. Their belongings piled up high on rickety buses, donkey carts and tractors, thousands of refugees poured out of Pakistan's North Waziristan on Thursday, terrified by both state troops and Taliban insurgents fighting for control of the troubled region. Pakistan announced the start of a full-on military offensive on Sunday to quash an increasingly assertive Taliban insurgency in the tribal ethnic Pashtun region where some of the region's most feared al Qaeda-linked militants are based. REUTERS/Ihsan Khattak (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)