For the hundreds of thousands displaced by the fighting in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, there has been very little actual assistance from both international NGOs and the Pakistani government itself. The numbers are mind-boggling: 200,000 additional internally displaced persons (IDPs) pouring in everyday into refugee camps.
Pakistani military forces are deep in battle [...]

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has signed a peace agreement that regional authorities had negotiated with the Taliban insurgency in the Swat Valley. The accord involves the implementation of the Sharia or Islamic law. The head of state ratified the pact shortly after the Pakistani parliament passed a resolution endorsing the agreement. Zardari had avoided [...]