Pakistan: IDPs returning to South Waziristan; displacements in Kurram as tribes fight Haqqani network
| Publisher | Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) |
| Publication Date | 26 November 2010 |
| Cite as | Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Pakistan: IDPs returning to South Waziristan; displacements in Kurram as tribes fight Haqqani network , 26 November 2010, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4cf35a7e2.html [accessed 25 May 2013] |
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Pakistan: IDPs returning to South Waziristan; displacements in Kurram as tribes fight Haqqani network
After months of negotiation between the Pakistani security forces and displaced tribal elders from South Waziristan in the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA), the process of returning is commencing this week. Between 60,000 and 80,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) will voluntarily go back to Serwakai and Sararogha, areas under the control of government forces. Humanitarian agencies including UNHCR have drawn up plans to assist the returnees with transport, tents, shelter and household items
Meanwhile, violent clashes that erupted in Kurram Agency in September have since killed more than 100 people and displaced thousands. Pakistani newspapers reported that Sunni Mangal and Shi'a Turi Bangash tribes were fighting over the control of water resources but, according to the Irani Ahlul Bayt News Agency, the Shi'a tribe was attacked by the Haqqani network, an insurgent group operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
See also: IDMC Pakistan country page and the June 2010 report Still at risk: Internally displaced children's rights in north-west Pakistan
