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Ashfaq Yusufzai

First The Taliban, Then The Army, Now Hunger: The Woes Of Pakistan’s Displaced

“Back home we had agricultural land, which produced enough food for us. We used to sell our surplus grain and vegetables for an income, but now we are becoming beggars.” — Shah Faisal, a refugee from Khyber Agency in northern Pakistan

March 10th, 2015

By Ashfaq Yusufzai

First The Taliban, Then The Army, Now Hunger: The Woes Of Pakistan’s Displaced

An elderly displaced man carries a sack of rations on his shoulder in northern Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS PESHAWAR - A doctor shakes his head in despair as he examines a 10-year-old child at the Jalozai refugee camp, about 35 km by road from Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s northern Khyber

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