Pakistan Army has devised a new plan for the settlement and return of the Malakand operation victims. This plan seems to be comprehensive so far. This plan is going to be supervised and carried out by the emergency response unit. This plan aims at speedy and safe return of the people from the camps and [...]
This is the last chance for us to wipe out the militancy and terrorism once and for all from the country. It’s good that our security forces are not caving in and they are chasing the terrorists all over the place; from Swat to FATA to Bannu. The fact is that unity and coordinated efforts [...]
Fear, disappointment, confusion, irresolution, and apathy is which mark our struggle agaisnt the terrorism crisis. Has it ended now? I fear not. Though our military establishment has certainly ceased to wallow in the indecision and they are after the terrorists with full might, rest of the factions are either acting like a sheep or they [...]
24 year old Ali, a young school teacher was fast asleep, when suddenly he heard an explosion which rattled the windows of his room and then he heard shouting outside his home. His neighbor Shaukat was screaming, “The Taliban has arrived.” Everyone was running helter, skelter. No one knew what was going to happen next. [...]
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said Pakistan urgently requires $600 million to cope with the internally displaced persons (IDPs) crisis.
“We need $600 million to meet the needs of the IDPs. The nation is united to help the displaced people,” the foreign minister told diplomats, media and delegates of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at [...]
The number of the displaced persons has crossed the figure of 3.8 million as about 5,40,127 families have moved to safer places due to military operation against the militants in the Malakand Division.
According to a press release issued here by the NWFP information department, the number of the displaced persons is 38, 70,500, both in [...]
It’s now time that the internally displaced people should become internally resettled people and go back from where they have come, as the operation in Swat has ended in the major cities, towns and even in many of the villages and the danger is only lurking high up in the mountains, where the security forces [...]
Action Aid
Pakistan Humanitarian Relief, 1420 K Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005 / 1-202-327-9924
(May 11, 2009) ActionAid is providing immediate relief in the form of food, water, medical supplies and sanitation facilities. We are assessing medium on long-term needs, such as helping families secure copies of their registration documents which many families left [...]
“There is a real national mood change on the part of the Pakistani people that we are watching and obviously encouraged by”
– Hillary Rodham Clinton, at Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 20, 2009.
What Mrs. Clinton is referring to are growing signs of Pakistanis showing support for their country and speaking out on the issues surrounding [...]
The crisis of the refugees pouring in by millions from the Swat and Dir and FATA is getting worse day by day and still it would take almost a year to bring back the routine of life in these areas. Sufferings and miseries are mounting, and the complexity of the culture mingled with mismanagement and [...]
