Families streamed out of the district, a flashpoint for Taliban and other violent groups on the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
supply line into neighbouring Afghanistan, after the army ordered them to leave because of military action going on in the area.
Three Pak soldiers and 34 forces of Evil were killed in Khyber last week shortly before US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Henry Kissinger...
arrived to step up pressure on Islamabad to do more to eliminate thug safe havens.
"Around 3,200 families, up to 18,000 people, have arrived in the Jalozai refugee camp and we are making arrangements to facilitate them," Adnan Khan, front man for the disaster management authority of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province, told AFP.
"We will provide them food for 15 days initially and also non-food items, including tents and utensils," he said.
An administration official in Khyber said that many people were sheltering with relatives or in rented houses, rather than at the government camp.
"More than 20,000 people have left the area, many of them have gone to relatives' homes in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar and other peaceful cities while many others rented houses there," said Mutahir Zeb, the top administrative official of Khyber.
The United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
said the numbers were being verified, but warned that the figure could be inflated by some people taking advantage of the free food and shelter on offer.
"The provincial disaster management authority has registered 3,200 families and we are verifying this number," Dunya Aslam Khan, spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency, told AFP.
"The estimated numbers of the displaced people are likely to come down by 10 per cent because normally people who are not affected by the disasters also join the displaced families just to enjoy the benefits and compensation," she said.
Pakistain's seven tribal districts on the Afghan border are rife with homegrown insurgency, and are strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.
Although Pakistain has fought Talibs across much of the region, it has withstood US pressure to wage battle against the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, which has leadership bases in North Wazoo.