The defence minister is flanked by Information Minister Attaullah Tarrar and Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Information for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Affairs Ikhtiar Wali Khan.
Following a surge in unrest and escalating security concerns, large-scale displacement is underway in Tirah Valley, with thousands of families leaving their homes for safer areas, including Bara and Peshawar.
The situation has caused the federal and provincial government to be at loggerheads with the former rubbishing the notion of planned or forced displacement while the latter has rejected as “misleading and factually incorrect” the federal government’s claim that displacement of the residents of the Tirah valley of Khyber district is voluntary in nature.
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