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March 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda According to the estimation by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Pakistani military operations against militant groups, which began on January 20, 2012, in the Khyber Agency region of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), have uprooted nearly 101,160 people, most of them women and children.
UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming said in Geneva that the new refugees pointed to the “proximity of fighting to them and instructions of the authorities to evacuate the area” as their reason to flee.
According to Fleming, “the recent increase in the intensity of battles is driving more refugees to the safe regions such as the Jalozai camp, where they are registered by the UNHCR and provided with basic humanitarian aids” as well as being away from the crisis-hit areas.
The Jalozai camp is a refugee camp 35 kilometers southeast of the western city of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, where, formerly, the Afghan refugees were kept, has now, according to Fleming, become the largest camp for internally displaced persons in Pakistan.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is providing an approximate number of 62,818 Pakistani refugees with food aid at the site.
Since June 2008, Pakistani troops have carried out multiple military operations in Khyber Agency. However, those operations have been unsuccessful as militant activities and violence still reign in the region.
Pakistan’s Army escalated its fight in the Khyber Agency after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Pakistan in 2011. She made the visit to Pakistan in a bid to step up pressure on Islamabad to expand military operations against pro-Taliban militants in the country’s northwestern tribal regions, which raises doubts that the operations were being conducted on the demand of Washington.
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