Crisis Persists in Pakistan’s Swat Valley Despite Return of Many Displaced – UN

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–30 April 2010 – The effects of the humanitarian crisis sparked by the military offensive against insurgents in north-western Pakistan a year ago persist despite the return of most of the two million people who fled their homes because of the conflict, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

“The human cost of the conflict is still being felt across the Swat Valley,” Andrej Mahecic, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for…