http://www.chowrangi.com/waziristan-refugee-crisis.html Pakistan Politics, Current Affairs, Business and Lifestyle Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:58:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.chowrangi.com/waziristan-refugee-crisis.html#comment-309199 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:30:53 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/waziristan-refugee-crisis.html#comment-309199 [...] Hina Safdar at Chowrangi is hopeful that the government would take immediate steps in preventing a refugee crisis. Refugees fled to Dera Ismail Khan and Tank, the two major towns in North-West Frontier Province on the border of South Waziristan. Aid workers said humanitarian access to the refugees remains the key challenge for the government given the area’s volatile security environment. The government denies there is any refugee crisis, saying it had made arrangements for the displaced, including a system to provide them with cash support and food items. It wasn’t feasible to set up camps, in part because of concerns about tribal violence because of traditional rivalry. The displaced are mostly staying with relatives or clansmen(..)I hope that Pakistan army will once again succeed and nip the evil forever so that we would not witness any refugee crisis again. [...] […] Hina Safdar at Chowrangi is hopeful that the government would take immediate steps in preventing a refugee crisis. Refugees fled to Dera Ismail Khan and Tank, the two major towns in North-West Frontier Province on the border of South Waziristan. Aid workers said humanitarian access to the refugees remains the key challenge for the government given the area’s volatile security environment. The government denies there is any refugee crisis, saying it had made arrangements for the displaced, including a system to provide them with cash support and food items. It wasn’t feasible to set up camps, in part because of concerns about tribal violence because of traditional rivalry. The displaced are mostly staying with relatives or clansmen(..)I hope that Pakistan army will once again succeed and nip the evil forever so that we would not witness any refugee crisis again. […]

]]> http://www.chowrangi.com/waziristan-refugee-crisis.html#comment-309117 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:48:32 +0000 http://www.chowrangi.com/waziristan-refugee-crisis.html#comment-309117 [...] Hina Safdar at Chowrangi is hopeful that the government would take immediate steps in preventing a refugee crisis. Refugees fled to Dera Ismail Khan and Tank, the two major towns in North-West Frontier Province on the border of South Waziristan. Aid workers said humanitarian access to the refugees remains the key challenge for the government given the area’s volatile security environment. The government denies there is any refugee crisis, saying it had made arrangements for the displaced, including a system to provide them with cash support and food items. It wasn’t feasible to set up camps, in part because of concerns about tribal violence because of traditional rivalry. The displaced are mostly staying with relatives or clansmen(..)I hope that Pakistan army will once again succeed and nip the evil forever so that we would not witness any refugee crisis again. [...] […] Hina Safdar at Chowrangi is hopeful that the government would take immediate steps in preventing a refugee crisis. Refugees fled to Dera Ismail Khan and Tank, the two major towns in North-West Frontier Province on the border of South Waziristan. Aid workers said humanitarian access to the refugees remains the key challenge for the government given the area’s volatile security environment. The government denies there is any refugee crisis, saying it had made arrangements for the displaced, including a system to provide them with cash support and food items. It wasn’t feasible to set up camps, in part because of concerns about tribal violence because of traditional rivalry. The displaced are mostly staying with relatives or clansmen(..)I hope that Pakistan army will once again succeed and nip the evil forever so that we would not witness any refugee crisis again. […]

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