What Happened!
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.
Since the start of the voluntary return of displaced people on 13 July 2009, an estimated 1.66 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.
Conflict between the military forces and the militants in Orakzai Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is on-going. So far approximately 23,800 families (approximately 135,000 individuals) have fled to the neighboring Hangu and Kohat districts, where the displaced people are living with host families. Only a small fraction of them (around 179 families) are living in a Government established camp in Hangu district.