WUNRN
PAKISTAN - CRITICAL DISPLACEMENT
CRISIS - CONFLICT - WOMEN & CHILDREN
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Mohammad Sajjad / AP |
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Newly arrived refugees from
Pakistan's troubled areas of Mingora and Buner in the Swat valley, wait for
tents in a camp set up for people who fled from fighting between Taliban
militants and government security forces, in Mardan near Peshawar, Pakistan
on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Helicopter gunships and mortar teams pounded
militant strongholds, killing dozens outside emerald mines, the military
said, as Taliban reinforcements poured down from their mountain hide-outs and
seized homes and government buildings.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) _____________________________________________________________________________________ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 13 (UNHCR) –
The number of people who have fled the fighting in northwest Pakistan this
month and been registered or recorded by authorities reached 670,906 on
Wednesday, up from just over half a million the day before.
______________________________________________________________________________________ May 14, 2009 António Guterres "Upon my arrival, I was informed
that more than 835,000 people fleeing the fighting in northwest Pakistan have
been registered since 2 May. The latest figure is a dramatic increase within
just 48 hours as the day before the number of displaced Pakistanis surpassed
the half a million mark. This is a massive, massive displacement in the world
today." |
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