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From Growing up scared in Peshawar, CNN.com:
Peshawar, Pakistan (CNN) — Zara brushes her dark brown curls away from her face, nose scrunched up in concentration as she stares at the white board. She looks down to write and then pauses, placing her little finger on her chin in contemplation.
Like a typical 7-year-old, her favorite part about school is the games.
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As Internally Displaced People (IDP) in Pakistan have begun to move back home from the aid camps in Swat Valley many are found caught in the violence between the government and the Taliban.
Different groups are beginning to be seen as targets in the violence, one being young girls going to school.
Girls are forced to trade their uniforms for street clothes and hide their books in their shawls so that they do not get taken away and burned. Schools have been bombed and many girls are being banned from attending those that are still standing.
Monster’s Ball rip 
June 17, 2009
By Dr Rubina Mumtaz
Displacement is an inadequate, meaningless word when it is used to describe the trauma of being wrenched from your home and forcibly dislocated to a far flung place not of your choice.
Imagine an ordinary day in your life. Food is warm on the table, the children are out playing and you’ve send your other half or your teenage son to get bread from the bakery. Suddenly the shrill explosions of bombs landing in your backyard break the tranquility. The panic, the chaos, the screaming, the children outside; are they alive or not, people running helter-skelter. In an instant, life becomes all about survival, the very lives and safety of your loved ones. What do you pick up from your abode as you make the panic-induced on-spot decision to run for your life? Your clothes? Your money? Your identity papers/credit cards? Or do you just grab the hands of your loved ones and run? This is what happened to over 2 million people. They fled for their lives with nothing on them except the clothes on their backs.
Hence the words ‘inadequate and meaningless’ to describe displacement. The internally displaced people (IDP) are people like you and me, who had perfectly good lives till the Taliban decided to invade this tranquil scenic mountains of Swat in Northern Pakistan. The Taliban did not come overnight. They slowly insidiously infiltrated into the area, preaching about Islam, missionary in their approach to impose the Islamic Sharia (Islamic law) that assured peace, quick justice, law and order plus the promise of heaven hereafter. They recruited the bright eyed youth with immediate lucrative economic and power-based returns. The government of Pakistan initially turned a blind eye; it began to acknowledge the Taliban only when the metastasis of their networks reached into neighboring districts of Malakand. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 17, 2009
By Dr. Rubina Mumtaz
The freak monsoon of 2008 wrecked havoc across Pakistan. The North West Frontier Province and its adjoining tribal areas had the most casualties where flash floods killed 200 people overnight, literally sweeping away property and livestock of over 114 villages comprising of 11,200 houses affecting over 67,000 people.
Following is the latest update on efforts in Pakistan; to read more about Real Medicine Foundation’s relief efforts and
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August 4, 2008
By Dr. Rubina Mumtaz
Our primary healthcare clinic is expanding at a tremendous rate. In the first quarter of 2008, the OPD showed an 80% increase which means from an average of 40-50 patients 140-150 patients a day. In the second quarter, the OPD slowed down slightly due to security concerns and political instability but was still higher than the previous year.
This increase can be attributed to the fact other health units operated by NGOs and the government after the earthquake have gradually phased out as their funding interests changed and moved to other parts of the world. The few government health units currently open are functioning without doctors and proper medicines plus they charge an entry fee to the patients. This has diverted a large flow of patients towards the RMF-HF health unit from across Tehsil Balakot and today we can safely say we are catering for119,364 people from five union councils including Talhatta, Shohal Moizullah, Garlat, Gari Habibullah and Balakot. Naturally this has put enormous burden on the supply and consumption pattern of medicines for the clinic staff. The economy of the Pakistan has been spiraling down at an alarming speed resulting in unprecedented price hikes of practically all necessary items. The combination of these factors is putting a tremendous strain on the RMF clinic budget.
Benazir Bhutto is dead. She was brutally murdered on 27th December 2007 and Pakistan was plunged into darkness. For my country, 2007 was a year full of sorrow and bloodshed and as a gesture of farewell, left by extinguishing our last ray of light.
The earthquake of October 8, 2005 destroyed most of the Frontier (NWFP) and Kashmir (AJK) regions of Pakistan and caused widespread death and devastation. An area of approximately 30,000 kilometers was affected where more than 3 million lived in hamlets perched on Himalayan mountain slopes and valleys. 
This catastrophic disaster was described as the world’s third deadliest natural disaster in the last 25 years. It killed more than 87,000; injured more than a 100,000 and made 3 million people homeless in the highest mountain ranges in the world.
Brennan RJ and Waldman RJ, New England Journal of Medicine, In partnership with HOAP, Real Medicine Foundation established a medical relief camp in Jabri (UC Shohal Moizullah), District Mansehra, to help alleviate the sufferings of the residents of remote villages atop the mountains close to Balakot. Read the rest of this entry »
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