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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 [...]

This Saturday, the Pakistani army was able to enter Mingora, the main town of the Swat valley in the northwest. Confrontations with the Taliban militants continue. According to a spokesman for the army, Major General Athar Abbas, the insurgents were driven from several quarters, and 17 rebels, including an important commander, were killed over the [...]

The number of internally displaced people in Pakistan is now two million of which more than 1,400,000 have been recorded in the last two weeks, as reported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It has been ‘such a massive shift in such a short period of time,’ according to the office. UNHCR data show a total of 1,454,377 [...]