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A piece of art, attractive, colorful, , the beautiful trucks & buses of Peshawar, north western Pakistan.
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Pekas of Nepali Himalayas, from Everest Base camp trek.
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Enjoying the sun, a Nepali cherub, from Namche bazar.
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A girl who was injured by a suicide bomb blast in Hangu lies while awaiting treatment at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province March 5. A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of civilians guarded by security forces in Pakistan's northwest last Friday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 30, police said.
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The beautiful building of Islamia College Peshawar.
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A beautiful mountain, taken from Lukla, during Everest Base camp trek.
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A displaced Pakistani woman clad in a burqa holds her daughter in the health clinic in Jalozai camp.
UNHCR / H. Caux / May 21, 2009
Home remains a dream for the displaced in Pakistan's Jalozai camp
JALOZAI, Pakistan, March 4 (UNHCR) – The restoration of peace in parts of north-west Pakistan has allowed many people to return to their towns and villages over the past year, but hundreds of thousands of civilians, like 11-year-old Ishaq Khan, remain far from home and dependent on aid.
"Figures tell us that the displacement crisis is far from over in Pakistan and there are still more than a million people who require continued humanitarian assistance," said Mengesha Kebede, UNHCR's representative in Islamabad. "And we must also not forget people who have returned and are in need of assistance in making their reintegration a sustained one," he added.
He reiterated that UNHCR was seeking US$69 million to continue delivering aid to those in need in the north over the first six months of this year.
Many of the beneficiaries of UNHCR assistance are living in Jalozai, located 30 kilometres west of the city of Peshawar. With a population of some 106,000 civilians, it is the largest camp for internally displaced Pakistanis. The government is reportedly considering a partial return for later this month.
Ishaq has been in Jalozai with his parents and a younger brother since August 2008, when they fled from their village in the restive Bajaur Agency. He now lives in a tent provided by the UN refugee agency.
"Our home was completely destroyed in the fighting [between government troops and militants] and we had no other option but to leave our village and seek refuge in the camp," said Ishaq. Many other camp residents tell a similar tale of their flight from Bajaur in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
The young Pakistani is desperate to return home, but cannot do so because of continuing fighting and unrest in the north-west tribal regions. "I believe that peace will be restored to my region one day, but we want that to happen soon," he told recent UNHCR visitors to the camp.
"Once that happens, I would appeal to the government to help us rebuild our destroyed houses, and also help rebuild this country that has suffered so much," added Ishaq, who dreams of one day becoming a doctor.
Today, there are more than 1 million internally displaced people in Pakistan. Some 114,000 of them reside in nine camps and the rest are staying with relatives or renting homes across the North West Frontier Province. Almost 1.7 million people have returned home over the past year, mostly to Swat and other districts of Malakand Division.
But Ishaq and about 250,000 other people from Bajaur remain displaced and may have to wait for some time before return is possible. Around 74 percent of Jalozai's population originates from Bajaur.
UNHCR is helping the government to run Jalozai and eight other camps. The refugee agency has also helped register the people displaced from Malakand Division and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Syed Rehman, 53, another camp resident from Bajaur, is also eager to go back with his family. "We have spent some 18 months in this camp, but now we are fed up here and want to go back to our lush, green valley, which was once famous for peace," he said, while stroking his white beard.
UNHCR, meanwhile, hopes that donors will respond generously to its appeal so that the refugee agency can continue to provide shelter, counselling and other assistance to the displaced and to maintain emergency preparedness in case of more displacement in 2010.
By Qaiser Khan Afridi in Jalozai, Pakistan
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In 1988, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar launched 'Operation Salam', a broad cooperation and coordination effort of humanitarian aid, rehabilitation, reconstruction and economic recovery for the Afghan people.
An Afghan mother with her children in Akora Khattak camp.
01/01/1988. Peshawar, Pakistan. UN Photo/John Isaac. www.un.org/av/photo/
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Dry Mustard for mustard seed.
Dry mustard in its seed form can be classified as either white mustard, brown mustard or black mustard. Seeds crushed into a fine powder are also readily available in many markets. Mustard seed is among the world's most ancient of flavorings, found in the remnants of Egyptian and Indian civilizations from centuries ago.
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Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan await to receive donations at the Puli Charki refugee center.
UNHCR / N. Behring-Chisholm / April 2002
Khalida's story: Leaving Kabul in fear, returning with hope
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (UNHCR) – "I want to go back but I am afraid," she said, waiting as her mother registered the family of 15 at Takhtabaig Voluntary Repatriation Centre near Peshawar, western Pakistan.
"I am afraid because I cannot forget the way we left Kabul," explained Khalida, 22, an Afghan refugee who had been living in Pakistan for almost eight years.
Recalling the terrifying circumstances that led to flight from Kabul in the pre-Taliban days, when Afghanistan's capital was being torn apart by different mujaheddin groups battling for control of the city, she continued slowly, "I still remember our last night there. We were sitting at home and talking when my brother burst into the house. He was panting and his faced was blue. He said, looking towards my mother, 'Today it is our neighbourhood's turn.'"
It was only later that Khalida found out what her brother meant – groups of men working for the different armed factions were abducting women from their houses. Khalida's family spent the night hiding in the basement, something they had done before when there was shelling and bombardment outside.
"When we were all in the basement, my brother said, looking desperately towards me and my sisters-in-law, 'They are coming to take the women; I cannot let that happen. I love you, but for my honour and my family's honour, I will kill you the moment they enter the house and then I will kill myself rather than hand you over. So, forgive me your blood, as God knows what will happen.'"
"We were shocked but understood him well," said Khalida. "I wanted to cry and my chest was going to burst, but I thought that by crying, I was going against my family honour. That night we listened to the trampling of feet in the street, shooting and cars moving. Every time I heard a voice coming, I thought that was it. I do not know how I fell asleep that night."
The next day, the family decided to flee for Pakistan. Khalida's nephew found a getaway car while everyone else hastily grabbed a few items of clothing. The women did not have chadari (an overall worn by some women in Afghanistan), so they covered themselves with bed sheets in the car.
"The whole journey was tiring and I did not dare to remove the bed sheets because I had heard stories that if someone takes a fancy to you, he will take you and marry you and you will never see your family ever again. I was very afraid and the whole day we could not eat anything," recalled Khalida.
"The next night we stayed in Jalalabad, and in the morning the journey continued. It was dangerous but I was no longer afraid. I was thinking of reaching Pakistan, where so many relatives have gone before and never came back."
The family reached the Torkham border in the shadow of the Khyber Pass in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province in the wee hours of the morning. They eventually joined an uncle who was living in Hayatabad, a town near Peshawar.
"We had nothing to eat or wear," said Khalida, reflecting on her initial days in Pakistan.
After almost eight years in Hayatabad, the family settled in; Khalida worked while her brothers attended school. "But we have decided that it is time to go back home. God will take care of us."
Leaving Takhtabaig with her family, Khalida smiled and said, "See you in Afghanistan."
By Mariam Arzomand
UNHCR Pakistan
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