People of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa face a Human Rights Crisis

Swat, December 19: Sandwiched between the army and militants, the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan are facing a severe humanitarian crisis. The human rights situation is deteriorating mainly in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FDTA) where sporadic and continuous low intensity war has resulted in torture, killings and enforced disappearances of the tribal people. This was revealed in a 130-page report by Amnesty International titled `As if Hell Fell on Me’: The Human Rights Crisis in Northwest Pakistan’. It says more than 1 million people were displaced from their homes in Pakistan’s northwest tribal belt in the conflict with the Taliban.