IDPs demand repatriation schedule

BARA: The internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Khyber Agency have asked the government to announce forthwith the exact date for their repatriation to native areas.
They said the families displaced as a result of ongoing Operation Khyber-1 have suffered due to the poor living conditions in the camps and in rented houses in various parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Talking to The News on Monday, a displaced tribesman Amin Gul Afridi said that the military operation, underway for the last six years, had destroyed the infrastructure in Khyber Agency.“About 5,000 tribal people including members of the peace committee and locals have been killed in sectarian violence and military operations during the past 10 years in Tirah valley and Khajuri areas of Bara,” he stated.
He said the displaced persons who had fled the military operations in Khyber Agency were facing a host of problems. He added the government had announced in February to send back the IDPs, but it didn’t materialise.