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VOICES FROM THE FIELDTHE IRC BLOG
Pakistan: Aiding thousands who fled fighting in South Waziristan
Since the summer, over one and a half million displaced Pakistanis have returned to their homes. But at the same time an equal number of people will remain displaced during Pakistan’s harsh winter.
Photo: Sasha Pippenger/The IRC
More than two months after the Pakistani military launched an offensive in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan, only now are the IRC and other humanitarian aid organizations gaining access to the estimated 430,000 people who have fled the fighting.
An earlier military offensive centered in the Swat Valley and surrounding areas uprooted some four million people and triggered a major humanitarian crisis.
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