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‘2,800 Pakistan families flee to Afghanistan’

KABUL: Twenty-eight hundred Pakistani families have fled to Afghanistan over the past two months to escape fighting between the Taliban and security forces in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, an official said on Friday.

The families, which could number up to 20 members each, were mostly living with relatives across the border in Kunar province, Afghan Deputy Refugees Minister Abdul Qader Ahadi said.

“They escaped from fighting between Pakistani Taliban and the Pakistan government,” Ahadi said.

The families had gone mainly to the Shigal, Marawara and Dangam areas near Pakistan’s Bajaur region, the minister said. “They are not permanent and will leave,” he said.

Emergency assistance had been delivered through the International Committee of the Red Cross and other humanitarian organisations and more aid is planned, Ahadi added.

Those fleeing clashes in Pakistan last year crossed into Afghanistan’s Khost area but later returned to their homes, he said. afp

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