Pakistan military faces up to humanitarian crisis

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Source: CNN

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's military is dealing with more than a million Pakistanis who have been displaced by fighting since last year, a military spokesman said Tuesday.

The military has set up headquarters to manage the 1.3 million internally displaced people, spokesman Gen. Athar Abbas said.

That number includes 500,000 Pakistanis who were uprooted from their homes since August, before the latest military push against Taliban militants in the country's northeastern region, he said.

The army has set up hospitals in many of the refugee camps and plans to build camps near the conflict zone, he said.



Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/pakistan.conflict.refugees/

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1. Here's a map if anyone would like to see where this is happening.

It's good that the military is trying to take care of the displaced people. How are they going to keep the camps safe, though? :(