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Pakistan: Why these displaced people can't return home

Fatima Nazish in Peshawar
September 18, 2024

Pakistan's military forced members of the Kokikhel tribe out of their villages in the country's northwest as part of a crackdown on jihadists a decade ago. Today, they still can't return home.

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Members of the Kokikhel tribe have stepped up protests against Pakistan's government in recent weeks. Protesters have blocked a major highway along the country's border with Afghanistan, disrupting both sides of the border.

Thousands of tribe members were displaced from their homes in 2014 as part of the Pakistani military's crackdown on jihadists in the Tirah Valley, located in the northwestern state of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Since then, other displaced people in Pakistan have been allowed to return home, but the Kokikhel tribe members have not.