Pakistan´s refugee crisis strains host families and the internally displaced

Tue, 06/30/2009 - 13:05
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A powerful faction of Taliban fighters has pulled out of a peace deal with the Pakistani military saying that US drone attacks and military operations forced them to cancel the 2008 peace accord.
The fighters resumed attacks against Pakistani military in North Waziristan Tuesday, killing at least seven. This comes on the heels of an attack in which 27 soldiers were killed in an ambush.
Pakistan´s military is staging a campaign to oust Taliban militants from the country´s northwestern tribal belt and millions have fled their homes in order to avoid being caught in the crossfire.
Most people who have been displaced by violence in the Swat Valley, Lower Dir and Buner districts, have been living with host families or in communal buildings like hospitals and schools. But these internally displaced persons are now realizing that the hospitality of their host families is declining with every passing day.
Nathan Moore reads for FSRN´s Gabe Matthews who sent us this report from Northwest Pakistan.

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