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GENEVA: The number of people forced to flee fighting in NWFP since August 2008 has exceeded the two million mark, the UN refugee agency said on Monday.
The number includes 1.45 million people registered as displaced during the Pakistani armyÂ’s offensive against the Taliban since May 2, and another 553,916 who fled earlier fighting, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement.
High Commissioner Antonio Guterres had described the displacement crisis as “one of the most dramatic in recent times,” UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond said. “It’s like trying to catch something that’s moving ahead of us because the number of people on the move every day is so big and the response is never enough,” Redmond said. |