Pakistan's Refugees Burden Its Major Cities

nytimes.com:

Pakistan is experiencing its worst refugee crisis since partition from India in 1947, and while the world may be familiar with the tent camps that have rolled out like carpets since its operation against the Taliban started in April, the overwhelming majority of the nearly three million people who have fled live unseen in houses and schools, according to aid agencies.

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Here in the West alot of people don't understand the diversity of people in Pakistan. The number of different tribes and dialects. They even have gypseys that provide services to people that can't do certian things becaues of religious reasons. For them to be in turmoil because of the Taliban can only be a bad thing. I think I heard that only 10% of the population speak the official language of Pakistan.