Faizullah Khan and his family are trying to survive in a house under construction in Dera Ismail Khan. They are waiting to get a tent from relief agencies.

[Faizullah Khan, Family Displaced]:
"We fled when the (military) operation started. But now that we are here, there is neither a roof over our head, nor any food for the family. Whenever we go to collect relief rations, we are pushed and shoved."

Khan’s family is one of many families that has been displaced due to an ongoing army offensive against Taliban militants in South Waziristan.

According to government reports over 130-thousand people have fled the fighting.

The Pakistani army and United Nations humanitarian organizations… are helping the government… by providing essential assistance, services, and support… to those displaced by the conflict.

But people say that the old and weak end up getting nothing most of the time.

Some displaced people say security personnel in charge of distributing relief goods have resorted to baton charging and even firing over the heads of the unruly crowds.

Khan's family has 14 children...seven were in school... but it’s now like dream of the past for them.

[Zahida Bibi, Faizullah’s Daughter]:
“Back home I was studying in Class 2. Here we do not have money to pay the school fee, so I am not going to school.”

[Sanam Bibi, Zahida’s Cosuin]:
“We were all studying over there, but here we have no money so I help my mother around the house. I make bread and also do other chores.”

The Pakistani army went on the offensive in South Waziristan last month, aiming to root out Pakistani Taliban militants.