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India-Pakistan
UN scales up aid to people fleeing fighting in Kurram
2011-07-13
[Dawn] The UN refugee agency says it is ramping up its aid operation for people fleeing fighting in Pakistain's northwest tribal region of Kurram.
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
A front man for the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says some 84,000 people are believed to have decamped their homes amid a military operation against forces of Evil in Kurram.

Adrian Edwards told news hounds in Geneva on Tuesday that UNHCR is providing tents and emergency supplies to local authorities.

He says camp planners are being sent to help prepare for new arrivals at the New Durrani camp located 20 miles from the conflict zone.

Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced across Pakistain because of simmering conflicts between the central government and local tribal groups.
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