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15 April 2013 - 4:19pmDisplaced by insecurity in their village in Pakistan’s north-west, eight-year-old Sana Batool and her family now share a rented house in one of the many communities hosting displaced people in and around Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Sana’s family had to leave their home, agricultural... -
2 November 2012 - 11:38amMai Shahzadi and her four children are among more than a quarter of a million people living in temporary settlements following monsoon floods that have affected more than 5 million people across Pakistan this year. Shahzadi, 35, found shelter at a roadside settlement in her village after floods destroyed... -
23 October 2012 - 5:31pmThe United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US$9.9 million to help flood-hit communities in Pakistan’s Balochistan, Punjab and Sindh Provinces. Since August 2012, floods caused by heavy monsoon rains have affected 5 million people and destroyed over a million acres of... -
31 July 2012 - 12:21pmNine months ago, in September 2011, devastating floods in southern Pakistan ruined basic infrastructure and key medical facilities in Shaheed Benazirabad District, Sindh Province, leaving thousands of people without health services. Suleh Bibi, 25, was in the final stretch of her pregnancy, but she was... -
5 June 2012 - 5:37pmSecurity operations in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) since 2008 have uprooted thousands of families from their homes and villages to seek refuge in neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkwa. Many of these people have returned to their villages after spending months or years away, but not...
