Over 181,000 have fled recent NW Pakistan fighting: UNHCR

Agency says about 10,000 new arrivals were being registered daily by officials at the Jalozai camp near Peshawar.


Afp April 13, 2012

GENEVA: More than 181,000 people have fled fighting between government troops and Taliban or al Qaeda-linked militants in northwest Pakistan, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.

"The number of people displaced by an ongoing government security operation in northwest Pakistan has now surpassed 181,000," said a statement from the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

The agency said that about 10,000 new arrivals were being registered daily by officials at the Jalozai camp near Peshawar.

"The vast majority of those registered - 85% - choose not live in the Jalozai camp, opting instead to stay with friends, relatives or in rented accommodation," said the UNHCR.

The body said it had distributed more than 37,000 humanitarian kits and other UN agencies, including Unicef and the World Health Organisation (WHO), were also providing aid.

The fighting started on January 20 when government troops attacked militant groups in the Khyber region.

 

COMMENTS (6)

Sahibzada Shabir | 11 years ago | Reply

There only sin they are Pukhtun

Khawlah | 11 years ago | Reply

@Ahmad Usman: Dear operations are good as for as they kill the terrorists like one done in Swat. But the current operation by Pakistan Army in FATA is meaningless because it is not targeted towards the terrorists but it is just Arial Bombardment on Villages. The only effective operation in FATA is the Drone attacks which kill most of the leaders of AlQaeda and TTP and which helped a lot in reducing the bomb blasts done by Human Drones of TTP and AlQaeda.

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