Situation Background
Pakistan faced an enormous humanitarian crisis in Malakand division (North-West Frontier Province) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) triggered by fierce fighting between Government security forces and militants. While the hostilities were on-going since August 2008, it gained intensity from May 2009. This conflict situation resulted in migration of around 2.8 million individuals; majority of whom shifted to the districts Mardan, Malakand, Dir (lower Dir), Nowshera, Peshawar, Charsada and Swabi.
According to OCHA report (16th April 2010), since the start of the voluntary return of displaced people on 13 July 2009, an estimated 1.95 million individuals have returned to the areas of Swat, Buner and Malakand with the majority of the displaced people returning back to the Swat area. First phase of voluntary return to Pakistan's Mohmand Agency has commenced from 16th April 2010.
Conflict between the military forces and the militants in Orakzai Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is on-going. So far 28,767 families (approximately 210,369 individuals) have been registered in Hangu and Kohat districts, where the displaced people are living with host families.