Special Report: Pakistan
Crisis Far From Over
More than two million people have been displaced by the fighting between Pakistani forces and Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan. the IRC is providing lifesaving aid to thousands of displaced families.
Photo: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy www.AlertNet.org
"Going Home Could Be Deadly"
"The crisis in Pakistan is far from over. It is likely that the Taliban haven't been cleared out. We have heard many stories of displaced families returning home only to have members killed by the Taliban."
At a glance
Photo: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy www.AlertNet.org
- The IRC came to Pakistan to help millions of Afghan refugees in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980.
- Since then we have been assisting refugees as well as host communities in North-West Frontier Province.
- IRC emergency teams aided more than 230,000 survivors of the devastating earthquake of 2005 and helped their communities "build back better."
- The vast majority of families fleeing the current violence in the Swat Valley and other volatile areas of north-western Pakistan do not reach camps for the displaced but live with family or friends or are squatting in schools, abandoned buildings and other makeshift shelters.
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