Pakistanis refugees fleeing into Afghanistan

BBC:

The UN says 20,000 people have fled Pakistan's tribal area of Bajaur for Afghanistan amid fighting between troops and militants in recent months.

The UN's refugee agency says almost 4,000 families have crossed north-west into Afghanistan's Kunar province.

The army began a sustained campaign against militants in Bajaur nearly two months ago.

Some 300,000 others have fled east within Pakistan in recent weeks with many of them living in temporary camps.

The military says it has killed more than 2,000 militants in the fighting.

The UN's High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) believes that the majority of the refugees who have fled into Afghanistan will return home after the fighting stops in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).

Announcing its estimates of the numbers of people who have crossed the border into Afghanistan, the UNHCR in Afghanistan said in the last two weeks alone, more than 600 families had left Pakistan for Kunar.

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There is much irony in this, but the cause is the same as the original flight of the Afghans is the same. The Taliban create a situation that is not sustainable and draws forces against them that effect the bystanders. Hopefully, the Taliban has lost its ability to control the population in the area and they can return.

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