More than 1,000 families flee fighting
More than 1,000 Pakistani families have fled fresh fighting between the military and radicals in the lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, local officials said yesterday.
As many as 1,940 Afghan refugee families comprising 10,745 individuals on Monday left the Chakdara camp in Dir Lower district and started repatriation to their home country.According to officials here, out of these families 42 are those which have stayed in the Chakdara camp for 30 years.