Thousands of refugees fled fighting between Pakistani soldiers and Taliban militants in South Waziristan Tuesday, raising fears of a humanitarian cris...
GlobalPost | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
By Charles M. Sennott With Photos By Seamus Murphy | GlobalPost It was out of the refugee camps in Pakistan's northwest frontier province that the ...
The New York Times | Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Even as hundreds of thousands of people stream back to the Swat Valley after months of fighting, one important group is conspic...
GlobalPost | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
By Nasir Khan and Ayesha Nasir | Global Post ISLAMABAD -- When Zebunisa Jillani visits the camps established for Swat refugees in Islamabad, her f...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
The Pakistan army has begun allowing some of the 2 million people displaced by the violence in Swat Valley to return home, the BBC reports. The first...
Rob Asghar | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
The flood of millions of Afghan refugees into Pakistan after the Cold War led to an explosion of extremism, while American leaders were too busy celebrating the Cold War victory.
Ahsan Butt | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
When the Taliban overstepped their bounds, both literally and metaphorically, it led to greater public support for aggressive action, and gave the civilian leadership badly needed political cover to order the latest military operation against the militants.
Refugees International | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
The bombing of the Pearl Continental hotel may have an impact far beyond the huge crater in the hotel's parking lot - as it could compromise the assistance on which millions of displaced Pakistanis depend.
Nosheen Abbas | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
"I really wouldn't give the government any money for the displaced people from the north....you just don't know where it goes" says Muneeba a young so...
Queen Noor of Jordan | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Yesterday in Cairo, President Obama eloquently underscored the importance of human security. A major challenge to the world's capacity to care for its citizens is taking place right now in Pakistan.
World Vision | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
* Scroll down for photos By Chris Webster ISLAMABAD -- Poor communities in Pakistan's northwest are hosting up to two million people uprooted by re...
Mona Sarika | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
Due to repeated instances of plagiarism and misattribution, both on HuffPost and elsewhere, Mona Sarika's work has been removed and will no longer app...
Huffington Post Contributor | Dan Carucci | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
Dan Carucci I Huffington Post Contributor On top of dealing with drones, a Taliban insurgency, and a government crackdown on that insurgency, the mor...
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
BANAI BABA ZIARAT, Pakistan — A Pakistani flag now flies over army troops dug in on a strategic ridge that until two days ago was held by the Ta...
Reuters | Arshad Mohammed | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The United States said on Tuesday it would give Pakistan $110 million to help the estimated two million people who have fled f...
The Guardian | Declan Walsh in Islamabad | Posted 06.18.2009 | World
The human exodus from the war-torn Swat valley in northern Pakistan is turning into the world's most dramatic displacement crisis since the Rwandan ge...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
MARDAN, Pakistan — Members of a charity banned for its alleged links to the Mumbai terror attack have resurfaced in northwestern Pakistan under ...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
MARDAN, Pakistan — Helicopters dropped Pakistani commandos into a Taliban stronghold in the Swat Valley on Tuesday, pressing ahead with an offen...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
MARDAN, Pakistan — Pakistan's army vowed Friday to eliminate militants from a northwestern valley but warned that its under-equipped troops face...
wsj.com | By ZAHID HUSSAIN in ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, and REHMAT MEHSUD in PESHAWAR | Posted 10.20.2009 | World