The Taliban in Pakistan have released a video confirming that their former leader Baitullah Mehsud is dead. Mehsud was killed on August 6 in the tribal region of South Waziristan in a missile attack by a suspected US drone.  Read more... (266 words, 2 images, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

Dedicated to those who had faced the worst and biggest humanitarian crisis. I urge all of you to come forward in help them regain their paradise valley. Help them , donate for them to rehabilitate and reconstruct a better Pakistan ahead. Rehabilitation of the displaced people is a huge challenge which require collective national efforts and help of the international community.  Read more... (199 words, 1 image, estimated 48 secs reading time)

Over two million internally displaced persons (IDPs) are set to return home from today, the NWFP government has also allowed the IDPs living outside the camps to go back to some areas in the district of Swat. The convoys of the IDPs would be streaming in the beautiful valley amid tight security arrangements, backed by military gunship helicopters. The security is aimed at avoiding any untoward incident during the IDPs’ return.  Read more... (379 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Public opinion in Pakistan has turned sharply against the Taliban and other Islamist militants but Pakistanis still do not trust the United States and President Barack Obama, according to the results of a poll.  Read more... (485 words, 1 image, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

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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.  Read more... (205 words, 1 image, estimated 49 secs reading time)

After 9/11 and since last few years Pakistan had been on a roller coaster ride of crisis after crisis. We are paying the price of being the ally of US against war on terrorism although being a victim of the same. The terms Al Qaeda, Taliban, militants are now a nightmare for the world but why they all are hiding only in Pakistan? Osama is always searched in Pakistan; Afghan war can’t be conducted without our help than why only we are the sufferers, while we are the victims also?  Read more... (362 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Right now, as war and violent conflict rage around the world, people just like you are running – for their lives, their families, their dignity and their freedom.  They often have to leave everything behind.  And they leave with nothing but their hope, courage and determination.  They are refugees.
Every year on June 20 the world honors the courage, resilience and strength of refugees. On this seventh anniversary of the United Nations designated World Refugee Day, thousands of organizations in hundreds of countries will come together to focus global attention not only on the plight of refugees and the causes of their exile, but also on their determination and will to survive and on the contributions they make to their host communities.  Read more... (394 words, 0 images, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

The crisis of IDPs in Swat an Malakand areas of Pakistan  got attention of Hollywood too as Hollywood stars Brad Pitts and Angelina Jolie have donated $1 million, through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to the UN Refugee Agency to help displaced Pakistanis from Swat and other northwestern areas, where a military offensive has been launched to expel the Taliban militants. Jolie has worked with the UN refugee’s agency for eight years and visited Pakistan three times in recent years.  Read more... (330 words, 1 image, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

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The Pakistani military through its own channels has shared evidence with the U.S. military about Indian support for terrorism in Pakistan’s tribal belt and Swat.  Read more... (647 words, 1 image, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)