It has been reported by Dawn that Displaced people of the Malakand region are selling relief goods to pay for their routine expenses like clothes and medicines. The act has been done by three fourth majority of the Internally displaced persons to fulfill their utter needs other than food. According to the UN estimates, 87 per cent of the internally displaced persons live with host communities in schools, hospitals and houses and, so, were being provided food by their hosts. Therefore, they receive relief goods, but sell the same in local markets to pay for other expenses to local shopkeepers at throwaway prices to purchase medicines.

‘All of them have run out of cash money due to which they sell whatever they get to pay for their other expenses, such as haircut, shaving and buying drugs,’

Local shopkeepers are the beneficiaries, who buy the relief items from the IDPs at half the original price and sold them on 100% profit. Government should rehabilitate the IDPs living in camps as soon as possible. there has been delay in the Kharif crop also while the Rabi crop lacks harvesting due to conflict in the region. The delay could result in economic crisis and food shortage also.