Kurram Agency...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...
on Thursday.
Political Agent Riaz Mehsud told media persons that around 500 displaced families from North Waziristan Agency
arrived in Kurram Agency from Afghanistan's Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
. He said that basic facilities, including transportation, had been provided to IDPs and they were sent to the southern districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Health workers provided polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
drops to 2,186 children at the border. The returning IDPs said that they had gone to Afghanistan because of prolonged curfew in the area. Afghan officials said that around 50,000 people of Waziristan had taken refuge in Khost where they had been provided tents and other facilities.