Friday, August 1, 2014

Pakistan widows, 'second' wives flee fighting but are denied aid

Internally displaced woman walks outside a food distribution centre set up in a sports stadium in Bannu By Katharine Houreld and Saud Mehsud BANNU Pakistan (Reuters) - Thousands of women displaced by fighting in Pakistan are struggling to get food and other aid because they lack identity cards and conservative Muslim elders have forbidden them from going to distribution centers. The women are among nearly a million people who registered for aid after the army began an offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan, a mountainous region on the Afghan border. Many ended up in Bannu, a small city where narrow streets are crammed with people, livestock and motorbikes. No census has been conducted in North Waziristan for years, so no one knows the true scale of the problem.








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