U.N. says 1.4 million people displaced in Pakistan valley
REUTERS
18-May-2009 (5 comments)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The number of people displaced by fighting in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley has risen to more than 1.4 million, U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said on Monday.

"The situation is volatile and changing rapidly," Holmes told reporters at the United Nations.

He said extra financial resources were urgently needed to deal with the situation and that the United Nations would soon launch an emergency appeal for hundreds of millions of dollars to cover the costs of the refugees over the next 12 months.

Pakistan's government on Sunday urged people stranded by a military offensive against Taliban militants in Swat, an alpine beauty spot 80 miles northwest of Islamabad, to try to get out.

Many civilians are believed to still be inside Mingora, the main town in Swat, after the army launched an offensive more than a week ago to stop the spread of Taliban influence.

Holmes said the number of people displaced by the most recent fighting is more than 1.4 million. That is a total of people registered with the Pakistan authorities, with the help of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), he said.

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nojanthegreat

let start where you

by nojanthegreat on

let start where you finished.

war on terror doesn’t have any meaning. you can not go to fight with your own feeling can you ?

and no civilized and freedom loving country will give in to killing child and women and un armed man , that’s why we have protest against the war all over the map.

from start of the war , freedom and liberty in America have been attacked by go, patriot act , ear dropping on American phone calls. theremdetion progeram , and .......................

so please don’t bring civilized nation to your side . and the war on Gaza shows how civilized Israelis are loll.

you can not fight fundamentalism with fundamentalism like in evangelicals or Jehovah witness or Jews in general .

and they can start by ending support to Saudi Arabia and other wahabi nations like Egypt who will get billion dollars a year in aid just to be idol in matter of Israeli Arab conflict.

now on different point about me being naive or even being politically biased , I think you mistaken me for yourself . you just need to see TV network during the night or day and see how many TV program they have . and how they work in school . you just need to see Africa for example . their involvement in civil wars from Sudan , Somali and ............. are known to every honest historian.

American missionaries are known in history from china to south America.

we all know about the catalism in south America and who were behind it.

the fact that Islam is one of the top religions in world I am not arguing but the reasons are much different.

the third point about the brain washing and iri place in inspiring people to fight in name of Islam , that’s just a cheap shot .

Iran or as you say iri is behind this global jihad , are you really this paranoid ?

Iran has noting to do with bin laden , every one knows that .Pakistani jihads or even Afghani jihads don’t think that highly of iri so where is this brainwashing working ?

Iran help north coalition forces in Afghanistan when American and pakis were supporting taliban. you can see it clearly .

Iran today is closer with karzai than American forces .

on the fourth point over the American friend argument.

I am not saying others are sitting around on contrary they are standing up so proudly.

in Australia people answer American by kicking their right wing pm from the power and put a lefty who is to stop Australians involvement in afghan and Iraq war.

sarkozi is about to live office pretty soon,

Georgian president sarkashve has already see the problems by the war with Russia and its Owen people are about kicking him in ass.

where ele . south America is clearly against American and we all know it.

in group merkel show how she feels to obama when they asked for more money.

Russia has also show its policies by bringing Russian navy to Cuba and Venezuela to remind American that they are not alone lol

so what you really mean by American plot for the world to follow,

they pay a lot of money and aid to cezk and Poland for their nato and anti missile progeram , that’s why they agree , not because they love Yankees

and now about the fifth point on Iran and Arab sunny conflict.

there are not doubt that Arab wahabies and Pakistani wahabies against Iran is not in shallows.

killing Iranian diplomat happened in 1990's not in year 700 my friend .

in begging of Iraq war the prize for head of American solder was 3000 and for Iranian or Shiite was 2000 , that say it .

if you can not see that please look again.


Farhad Kashani

Nojanthegreat:   Iran

by Farhad Kashani on

Nojanthegreat:

 

Iran and Arabs WERE in a war, not anymore. The problem with people like you is they still live in history. This is not the year 700, its 2009. Wake up! Hamas is an extreme Sunni Arab group, is it in war with Iran? NO! Not only it’s not in war with Iran, it was created and is supported by Iran! IRI has inspired many young Sunni Arabs to rise up in the name of Islam. The world calls those “Jihadis”, i.e Islamic Terrorists. IRI’s propaganda machine has fooled lot of Arabs to think they are the only force that could stop Israel. So IRI has popularity among many young and brainwashed Arab Muslims.

 

Second, just because America’s “friends” are doing something bad, it’s not America’s fault! Are you saying the rest of the world is puppet? We have no control over our destiny and America has these incredibly great and widespread “plotting machine” that is controlling every action someone takes in all corners of the world? Yes, Americas support for Pakistan could’ve been done better, but their friendship goes back to the cold war where America and Pakistan allied themselves in face of Communism.

 

Third, do you understand and comprehend how someone could inspire someone to do something? Like the non violent civil disobedience movement by Ghandy that was copied around the world? Well, the IRI has inspired people around the world to rise up in the name of Islam. That has created an army of Islamic terrorists. They have become the single biggest threat for the future of our civilization. So, IRI is the one to blame for creating Islamic Fundamentalism, not “Pakistan Intelligence service”!!!!

 

Fourth, you’re either too naïve or too politically biased. Look, Muslims in San Francisco, (America’s Communist Headquarter!), may not want to take you in, but Muslim countries, including IRI, ha some of the most widespread and sophisticate and strong global network of promoting Islam. How many American TV stations do you see having religious programs during the day? Well, here’s a tip, get a satellite and watch Iranian or Arab TV stations broadcasted from there and see the difference.

 

Sixth, war on Terror is not about war in Iraq. Every civilized and freedom loving country in the world, have stated openly that it wants and is fighting Islamic fundamentalism.

  

 


nojanthegreat

well first of all come down

by nojanthegreat on

well first of all come down kashani its not good for your health , then you have to be out of this world if you don’t know the relation between us gov and mr bin laden and people like him .

Iran and sunny Arabs are in war , don’t you know that ? so how come Iran is involved in Pakistan when the same people who love to do the jihad things kill its diplomats less that 20 years ago , ops and also kill its diplomats in Afghanistan , where have you been , I hope not in the sands .

killing people in Afghanistan has provoked karzai who happen to be on American side , Pakistan inelegance service has been in bed with taliban for m its beginning and happened to be Americas # 1 friend and ally who just got more aid in ways of money and military aids.

and I see a lot of Muslims living here in san Francisco and none of them wants to take me in not like Jehovah witnesses or evenghalikas who happen to have a TV show in almost all 200 plus countries and been involve in massacres in Africa for last 20 yeas.

about the jihads as you say , I have the same reaction to them and their victims but not in the case of Israel do to the fact that by Jews state laws all people living in Israel are to be drafted for military services . so as you see no one is unarm population .

and please don’t bring all civilized countries to your side we all know how they feel about the ex war on terror , not a single south American country have been involved in this war except for elsalvador . in Africa you see the same pattern , in east Asia we have lovely japs who I don’t see them worrying about Muslim in any kind and all European country involved in this war are getting ready to

run back to their homelands after all that generate aid that they received from us , so again its Israel and America in this lonely campaign and we all know how much Jews were helpful to usa in this campaign.

and about involvement of Iran in this jihad thing again , Iran has support hezbolah and hamas who are in war for their homeland .as you know they have not been any terror attack outside of Lebanon or Jews state that have their name on it and they fight guerrilla wars .

now would you like me to continuo ?


Farhad Kashani

When the Islamist

by Farhad Kashani on

When the Islamist movements, inspired by the IRI regime, declare a global war to impose their version of Islam on the world and  promise to annahilate the United States, the U.S has two options: 1- Whether to see the threat and deal with it now. 2- Let them get to power (like Taliban and IRI) and have to deal with them then with much higher costs in lives and resources, later when they get to power. I'm glad that U.S, wheteher Bush and Obama, have realized that the threat needs to be dealt now. 

U.S is not there to kill "innocent Pakistanis" because it just loves to do that. U.S and all civilized world and people, are engaged in a GLOBAL war against Islamic Fundamentalism that transends borders and regions. It is the Islamists who have taken the civilian population hostage and are murdering them by numbers in the name of applying "Islamic law". Aren't those human beigs also? Where is your outrage regarding them? Where is your outrage regarding your own people getting butchered everyday by the hand of Islamist IRI?

 


nojanthegreat

yes you are right farhad

by nojanthegreat on

yes you are right farhad its all Pakistani’s people’s fault to be killed in day and night in wake and sleep by drone plans . the number of kids and women killed by Americans and now pakies are so up that no one is counting anymore. how far you people like to go , and why ? how you like to show yourself as a person who want to change Iranian society for better , a person who different himself from Iranian gov and then you support this war crime by Americans and pakies . change your way of thinking dude, please so the light .