of the IDPs to root out poliovirus from Bara tehsil.
Another victim of the Operation Khyber-1, Shahid Khan Afridi, believed the militants of the Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) and other banned organisations had fled Bara and gone to the Tirah valley.
He said though Khajuri area had been cleared and is peaceful for the last one month, yet the government was not announcing the date for return of the IDPs to their native areas.He alleged that policemen in the provincial capital harassed the dislocated people.
Citing an example, he said the police launched a crackdown against suspicious people in Gulberg locality a few days ago. “The cops, including a lady constable, entered my house without permission and asked irrelevant questions from my family members,” he complained.
He said the displaced people were living a miserable life at the IDPs camps and in rented houses.Several displaced people complained to The News that the infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, basic health units, roads and the lone college had been destroyed in the military operations in Bara tehsil during the last seven years.They asked the government to make arrangements for the return of the Khyber Agency IDPs as soon as possible after providing them proper relief package.
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