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VOICES FROM THE FIELDTHE IRC BLOG
Pakistan’s forgotten crisis
A displaced Bajauri man and his daughter in the Jalozai camp.
Photo: Sasha Pippenger/The IRC
While hundreds of thousands of displaced people have been able to go back to their homes in Pakistan’s conflict-ridden Swat Valley, some of the poorest people in the country are unable to return to their destroyed homes and crops.
Six months before a Pakistan military offensive against the anti-government Taliban sparked the crisis in the Swat Valley, a similar anti-Taliban military campaign in the tribal agencies of Bajaur and Mohmand agencies resulted in the displacement of over half a million people.
“People are desperate to go home but simply can’t,” says Mike Young, the IRC’s country representative in Pakistan.
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