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	<title>The Pak Factor &#187; IDPs</title>
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		<title>Return of IDPs: A deserving Salute</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/return-of-idps.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hina Safdar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDPs returning home]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217; return.



According to a plan worked out by the ERU (Emergency Response unit), IDPs living in camps will leave in the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Swat IDPs: an Aid Worker’s Diary</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/swat-idps-an-aid-worker%e2%80%99s-diary.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic relief]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pakfactor.com/?p=1099</guid>
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Ever since people started fleeing the conflict in Swat and Buner two months ago, there has been incessant talk that they are returning home. There has been an almost continuous stream of stories about how people have packed up their scant belongings and are crowding the roads out of Mardan, returning to their former lives and whatever destruction awaits them. But the people I have spoken to in the villages of Mardan District tell a very different story. They say that although they are desperate to return home they will ...]]></description>
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		<title>Swat IDPs are selling Relief Goods</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/idps-are-selling-relief-goods.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDP camps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Real people, Real needs&#8221; World Refugee Day</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/real-people-real-needs-world-refugee-day.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[help refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UNHCR]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pakfactor.com/?p=881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, as war and violent conflict rage around the world, people just like you are running &#8211; 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 ...]]></description>
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		<title>IDPs: Microsoft and Facebook to Help UNHCR</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/idps-microsoft-and-facebook-to-help-unhcr.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.pakfactor.com/idps-microsoft-and-facebook-to-help-unhcr.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hina Safdar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Affleck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gimme shelter programme]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You just have to join the cause on Facebook to donate a dollar to UNHCR. The technology company Microsoft has pledged to match dollar for dollar, up to $50,000, every donation to the United Nations refugee agency made on social networking site Face book.
The campaign, launched to help mark World Refugee Day on 20 June, has already received pledges of more than $10,000, to be matched by Microsoft, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Donations can be made through Facebook&#8217;s Causes section, directly to the agency&#8217;s &#8220;Gimme Shelter&#8221; ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dedicated to our Brave Soldiers</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/dedicated-to-our-brave-soldiers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.pakfactor.com/dedicated-to-our-brave-soldiers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pak Lover</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Military Operation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[RAHE RAAST]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pakfactor.com/?p=815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece of writing is dedicated to the brave soldiers of Pakistan who always lead from the front. They are courageous enough to cross every obstacle. The Army Operation RAHE RAAST against Taliban and militants in Swat and Malkand  is saluted with the depth of our hearts.

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		<title>Polio Vaccination in IDP Camps</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/polio-vaccination-in-idp-camps.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.pakfactor.com/polio-vaccination-in-idp-camps.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pakfactor.com/?p=705</guid>
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Tens of thousands of children were not vaccinated because militants in the affected areas had opposed the vaccination campaigns. This is thought to have contributed to the 117 polio cases reported in 2008, a sharp increase on the 32 reported in 2007. So far in 2009 12 new cases have been reported, compared to seven by the same date in 2008, according to data maintained by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
The presence of thousands of children from Swat and other northern areas in Pakistan&#8217;s camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani Tribesmen Battle Taliban</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/pakistani-tribesmen-battle-taliban.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hina Safdar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aftab Sherpao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Operation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Pakistan&#8217;s remote district of Upper Dir near the border with Afghanistan, the shock of the attack on the mosque during Friday prayers turned to anger a day later
That is when at least 400 armed tribesmen formed a civilian army, commonly called a &#8220;lashkar,&#8221; and started attacking Taliban militants in several villages. Reports say anywhere from seven to 13 Taliban militants were killed and several of their hideouts destroyed.
The civilian uprising in Upper Dir appears to be the latest evidence of growing anti-Taliban sentiment among the public, according to Fazal-ur-Rehman, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Battles flare up in Taliban &#8216;bolt-hole&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/battles-flare-up-in-taliban-bolt-hole.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.pakfactor.com/battles-flare-up-in-taliban-bolt-hole.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hina Safdar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ISPR]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Security forces have entered Kalam and are carrying out cordon and search operations against the terrorists, while 45 more miscreants have been killed in South Waziristan Agency, a known Taliban stronghold near Afghan border, during the last 24 hours, according an update issued by the ISPR .
Seven soldiers and an officer Lt Haider Nazir embraced martyrdom, while six other personnel were wounded in various operations against the terrorists.
According to the ISPR statement, the Nazim of Kalam along with other notables of the area welcomed the security forces and assured full ...]]></description>
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		<title>39 Suspects Arrested from IDPs Camps</title>
		<link>http://www.pakfactor.com/39-suspects-arrested-from-idps-camps.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 19:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hina Safdar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swat IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arrested taliban]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pakfactor.com/?p=570</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The concern mentioned by various journalists and bloggers that Taliban may disguise among the IDPs and can use them as a shield has proven true to an extent. They were hiding with the locals inside camps.
Police have arrested 39 suspected miscreants from various relief camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in northwestern Pakistan. The News Network International quoted an official as saying that the miscreants were nabbed from four big camps during the last 48 hours and shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation. 
 Thousands displaced persons as the ...]]></description>
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