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Sat 06 Jun 2009Baffling indifference to Pakistani 'exodus' trauma
OPINION:An unprecedented human drama is unfolding in Pakistan and yet few in the wider world are paying attention. Why?
THE STORY is there is no story. The question is “why?” As I remember the destruction and death in north western Pakistan after the earthquake in October 2005, an event that attracted huge international attention and propelled frontline international aid agencies like Concern Worldwide to begin their rapid response emergency work, little did I know then that some four years later over two million people would be on the move in this part of the country, internally displaced by a sustained and ferociously intense military conflict between the Pakistani army and Taliban insurgents.
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