Afghanistan Struggles to Cope as Pakistanis Flee Fighting
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Afghanistan is struggling to cope with about 65,000 Pakistanis who streamed across the border to flee fighting between the military and Taliban fighters that has displaced almost half a million people.
About 11,000 families have arrived in the eastern provinces of Khost and Paktika this month as Pakistan’s military fights militants in North Waziristan province. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif flew to a city in the tribal area today to visit some of the roughly 450,000 Pakistanis displaced in the country.