1st Sep 2009, Peshawar: Jean-Maurice Ripert of France has been appointed Special UN Envoy for Assistance to Pakistan
UN completed a high-level mission to Mingora in Swat District to assess the prevailing humanitarian situation
All 4,830 schools occupied by IDPs have been vacated and rehabilitation of schools has started
Situation Overview: According to the government, as of 24th August over 233,450 families of the 329,000 families registered and verified by the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Government as Internally Displaced People (IDPs), have returned to their places of origin. The districts to which the people have returned are: Nowshera, Peshawar, Mardan, Charsadda and Swabi. The above is again based on the reports from the UN. Many of the IDPs still haven’t received the IDP status as they have been living with their friends and families. The Sikhs who came from Khuram Agency and Orakzai Agency fall in this category. Continue reading ‘Humanitarian Response Highlights/Key Priorities-Pakistan’ »
30th August, 2009: Islamabad, Pakistan: Amardeep Singh and Navjit Singh, reporting from Peshawar: Aid work continues, we have just returned after distributing aid to 105 Christian families at Gojra, district Toba Tek Singh. The below incident has raised high security alert. More on the aid distribution to the Christian families, later….. Continue reading ‘Blast kills 16 Pakistan cadets; NATO trucks bombed’ »
6th of July 2009, Pesahwar, Pakistan: In the third visit to meet the Sikhs in Peshawar the Sikhs broke out their silence of their situation and gave a detailed saga of the kidnapping of Kalyan Singh.
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Medicines delivered at Panja Saheb Gurdwara Saheb
4th July 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan: Stationed currently at Hassan Abdal, Panja Saheb, in Pakistan, UNITED SIKHS volunteers surveyed the Internally displaced people (IDPs) at the Hassan Abdal-Panja Saheb camp of their needs. The immediate need was to provide medicines for chronic patients suffering from diabetes, respiratory issues and heart related problems. Continue reading ‘Panja Saheb Gurdwara, a haven for fleeing -Sikhs, Hindus and Christains’ »
Residents of Peshawar with Displaced members at the Bhai Joga Singh Gurdwara
June 27, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan: These are some of the major issues that the displaced Sikhs from the Orakzai Agency are facing
1) The Sikhs displaced from the Orakzai Agency are not referred to as IDPs as the Military hasn’t started the operations in Orakzai Agency as said to us by Herdiyal Singh from Continue reading ‘Displaced Sikhs from Orakzai Agency and now in Peshawar-2’ »
