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Eurasia Review
March 27, 2018
... and children in this brutal war, which has displaced millions of tribesmen who have been rotting in the refugee camps in Peshawar, Mardan and Bannu districts since the Swat and South Waziristan military operations in 2009 and then the ongoing North Waziristan operation which began in June 2014.
Eurasia Review
March 13, 2018
In Pakistan's context, the national security establishment originally meant civil-military bureaucracy. Though over the years, civil bureaucracy has taken a backseat and now “the establishment” is defined as military's top brass that has dictated Pakistan's security and defense policy since its inception.
New York Times
March 8, 2018
On it, apart from my biographical details and a photograph, there is a drawing of the Khyber Pass and the abbreviation N.W.A., for North Waziristan Agency. It marks me and .... Last March, at a refugee camp in Bannu, I was able to get my Watan Card, which allowed me to travel to Waziristan. While waitingÃÂ ...
Geo News, Pakistan
February 8, 2018
NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least two people died, including the deputy commander of a banned-outfit, in a US drone strike on Thursday night near the Pak-Afghan ... The US, through a statement by the US Embassy, had denied Islamabad's claim that the drone strike struck an Afghan refugee camp, with itsÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 25, 2018
“The claim in an M.F.A. statement yesterday that U.S. forces struck an Afghan refugee camp in Kurram Agency yesterday is false,” said Richard W. ... American officials said that there were no Afghan refugee camps in Kurram, a remote tribal region straddling the border with Afghanistan, where they saidÃÂ ...
DunyaNews Pakistan
January 24, 2018
KURRAM AGENCY (Dunya News) – Pakistan condemns a drone strike in Kurram Agency carried out by the Resolute Support Mission (RSM) this morning, which targeted an Afghan refugee camp. In a press release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was stated that Pakistan has continued toÃÂ ...
Gulf Times
January 21, 2018
... refugees' commissioner after the United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) introduced a new syllabus for schoolchildren at the refugee camps. ... (TTP) into Pakistan's territory was destroyed on Thursday by the country's armed forces on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in North Waziristan.
The Express Tribune
January 20, 2018
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government has raised serious concerns and sought an explanation from the Afghan refugees' commissioner after the United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) introduced a controversial syllabus for school children at the refugee camps.
The Guardian
January 30, 2015
The offensive that drove the refugees out of Pakistan was in response to an attack by Tehreek-i-Taliban on Karachi airport, and was meant to quell the Islamist militants who use North Waziristan as their base. The Pakistani military claims more than 1,000 militants have been killed since the assault began inÃÂ ...
Geo News, Pakistan
February 9, 2018
NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least two people died, including the deputy commander of a banned-outfit, in a US drone strike on Thursday night near the ... camp, with its spokesperson saying, “The claim in an MFA [Ministry of Foreign Affairs] statement yesterday that US forces struck an Afghan refugee camp inÃÂ ...
Brighter Kashmir
January 28, 2018
Even in the latest US drone attack in North Waziristan, Islamabad has claimed that the Haqqani terror network commander and his two associates were inside an Afghan refugee camp on Pakistani soil when they were 'droned', but Washington has outrightly rejected this claim. This contradiction has onceÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 25, 2018
“The claim in an M.F.A. statement yesterday that U.S. forces struck an Afghan refugee camp in Kurram Agency yesterday is false,” said Richard W. ... American officials said that there were no Afghan refugee camps in Kurram, a remote tribal region straddling the border with Afghanistan, where they saidÃÂ ...
DAWN.com
January 24, 2018
ISLAMABAD/KALAYA: Pakistan on Wednesday condemned a US drone strike deep inside its territory targeting an Afghan refugee camp and warned ... which is alleged to be the new base of the Haqqani network after being dislodged from North Waziristan due to the Pakistan military operation, Zarb-i-Azb.
Gulf Times
January 21, 2018
... refugees' commissioner after the United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) introduced a new syllabus for schoolchildren at the refugee camps. ... (TTP) into Pakistan's territory was destroyed on Thursday by the country's armed forces on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in North Waziristan.
Gulf Times
December 5, 2017
A roadside bomb killed at least six people and wounded eight others on Tuesday in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said. The blast took place in North Waziristan, one of the country's seven semi-autonomous tribal districts, where the army has been battling TalibanÃÂ ...
The Nation
November 20, 2017
According to The Independent, Authorities are investigating the apparent suicide of an 11-year-old Afghan boy at a refugee camp in Austria. The child had reportedly been struggling to help care for his six siblings at the camp in Baden, south of Vienna, where they had lived since last year. He died a dayÃÂ ...
The Nation
November 1, 2017
According to Radio Pakistan, security forces conducted information based operations in various parts of South Waziristan and recovered a large amount of arms, ammunition, improvised explosive devices and explosives under operation Radd-ul-Fasaad. Punjab Rangers with police and intelligenceÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
October 9, 2017
"Army convoy was on their way when some militants attacked a vehicle of the security forces in Dosli area of North Waziristan," a local political administration official, told Anadolu Agency on phone. The injured soldiers have been taken to military hospitals in Bannu and Peshawar cities, he added. SecurityÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 30, 2015
When Niazullah left his home in the tribal areas of Pakistan in June, he figured he would be gone for five days, a week at most. The army had given a three-day warning before an offensive against Islamist militants in North Waziristan and had banned vehicle travel, so many families left in a hurry with justÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 17, 2017
... Bangladeshi Army to continue on to refugee camps in Palang Khali, ... Kitton outpost along the border with Afghanistan in North Waziristan, ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 17, 2017
... Bangladeshi Army to continue on to refugee camps in Palang Khali, ... Kitton outpost along the border with Afghanistan in North Waziristan, ...
DAWN.com
October 13, 2017
... where the operation took place, and North Waziristan told AFP they had ... and an accomplice managed to escape to a nearby refugee camp.
DAWN.com
October 5, 2017
Refugee camps are becoming homes to millions of people. People are getting denied their right to self-determination. New brands of religious ...
Khaleej Times
September 21, 2017
Stretched along the Afghan border, North Waziristan's Miranshah was once a de facto Taliban state that hosted foreign militants including ...
The Nation
September 20, 2017
KARACHI - A cricket match will be played between Pakistan XI and UK Media XI in Miranshah, a town in the North Waziristan Agency in the ...
VICE
August 22, 2017
... in a school in the Gualn Refugee Camp for North Waziristani refugees. ... These are among the thousands that fled North Waziristan in June ...
VICE
August 22, 2017
... in a school in the Gualn Refugee Camp for North Waziristani refugees. ... These are among the thousands that fled North Waziristan in June ...
Voice of America
August 19, 2017
Pakistan's army also flew Votel's delegation to North Waziristan, a remote mountainous tribal district near the Afghan border that until recently had been condemned as an epicenter of international terrorism. The Pakistan military says sustained counterterrorism operations have cleared most of the tribal ...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
July 9, 2017
as a result of a military offensive in North Waziristan Agency are all poised to start returning home today (Monday), an official said. About 1,200 individuals will return North Waziristan via the Ghulam Khan crossing point, Political Agent Kamran Khan Afridi told journalists. A centre has been established near ...
Voice of America
July 3, 2017
The five-member bipartisan delegation Monday was flown by Pakistan's military to the semi-autonomous South Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. South Waziristan and the neighboring North Waziristan district - part of what is known as the Federally Administered Tribal Area or FATA - have for ...
Voice of America
June 14, 2017
VOA reporting on the origins of IS in eastern Afghanistan disclosed that most of the militants initially came to Afghanistan from the Orakzai Agency of Pakistan's tribal area of North Waziristan. Initially they came with their families, pretending to be refugees displaced by a military operation launched by ...
The Nation
May 30, 2017
... quantity of arms and ammunition during IBOs in village Punga Kali in South Waziristan Agency and village Idak in North Waziristan Agency, ...
Voice of America
April 27, 2017
A suspected U.S. drone strike killed several Pakistani Taliban militants in North Waziristan close to the Afghanistan border, one militant ...
The Guardian
March 15, 2017
Children in a refugee camp, Pakistan. ... The mountainous, semiautonomous region, including North Waziristan, was controlled by militant ...
The National
March 13, 2017
A battled-hardened commander in the Pakistani army, he has spent the last eight years in the rugged tribal zone of North Waziristan, ...
DAWN.com
February 19, 2017
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Sunday carried out air strikes in the border area of North Waziristan Agency on terrorist positions, said a ...
Aljazeera.com
January 3, 2017
We've been covering the conflict for many years, but there is a marked improvement after the final push by the military to dislocate various groups who were using North Waziristan as their base ... But serious challenges still remain despite an improvement of the security situation in Pakistan." Source: Al ...
The Guardian
January 30, 2015
The army had given a three-day warning before an offensive against Islamist militants in North Waziristan and had banned vehicle travel, ...
M
July 31, 2014
The refugee camp is now the temporary home of thousands of people fleeing a military offensive in North Waziristan, on the other side of the ...
IRINnews.org
July 1, 2014
Nearly half a million people have been forced out of North Waziristan Agency by an ongoing Pakistani military operation there, including nearly ...
VICE
August 22, 2017
... in a school in the Gualn Refugee Camp for North Waziristani refugees. ... These are among the thousands that fled North Waziristan in JuneÃÂ ...
VICE
August 22, 2017
... in a school in the Gualn Refugee Camp for North Waziristani refugees. ... These are among the thousands that fled North Waziristan in JuneÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
July 16, 2017
... groups from various parts of its tribal belt since 2014, including the Zarb-e-Azab (Strike of Sword) operation in North Waziristan tribal region.
Anadolu Agency
May 30, 2017
The operation, which ousted Taliban from the restive region, also displaced more than a million people, mainly from North Waziristan, one ofÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
April 26, 2017
Revelations made by an under detention Pakistani Taliban member that Kabul provided support to the group for launching terror attacks onÃÂ ...
DAWN.com
April 24, 2017
... Mohmand, Kurram, North Waziristan and South Waziristan agencies ... unregistered and living outside the registered refugee camps wouldÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
April 1, 2017
... the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan Agency, and Wanna, the administrative headquarters of South Waziristan Agency.
The Guardian
March 15, 2017
Children in a refugee camp, Pakistan. ... The mountainous, semiautonomous region, including North Waziristan, was controlled by militantÃÂ ...
BBC News
March 7, 2017
For over a decade the inaccessible and mountainous tribal area of North Waziristan was home to a swirling array of violent jihadists.
Anadolu Agency
February 22, 2017
... operation was launched against the Pakistani Taliban group, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, in the restive North Waziristan and other tribal areasÃÂ ...
