Eyewitnesses of violence in the struggle of the Pakistan-Taliban offensive in the Swat Valley, was not that journalists generally not permitted in the zone.

Abdul Hai Kakar BBC Urdu has collected a series of stories in the first person to farmers in the region.

The security forces came to our village June 20, 2009 and blew the house of a local Taliban commander, Sher Mohammad Qasab.

Once you've done that, they searched my house and my sister who are on this side by side next to the Taliban commander.

Soldiers of Dungeon Fighter Power Leveling, capital of Swat Valley, troubled Pakistan, Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Pakistan army says it has mainly conditioned fighters Swat.

Now, the Army asked us to move ahead of them, as they turned their mission.

At that time, I said that Army officials, they come to us before the information hiding Taliban in the environment.

Here, Javed Iqbal Hajiabad describes what happens when the army attacked his village.

It is now a full-fledged battle between the army and the Taliban, which lasted 12 hours.

Later, we saw that eight soldiers were killed in the fighting.