Pakistan's displaced fear returning home
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Earlier this month the Taliban attacked a hotel in the Pakistan city of Peshawar.
The attack on the hotel, known to accommodate United Nations and other international aid staff, is now seen as a clear sign the Taliban is targeting the U.N. and others assisting those displaced by recent fighting.
Presenter: Ron Corben
Speakers: Paul Risley, Asia spokesman the World Food Programme
CORBEN: The June 9 attack on the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar killed nine people and devastated the property frequented by international aid organizations working to assist millions displaced by the Pakistan army's fight against the Taliban.
The United Nations World Food Programme Paul Risley, who just spent three weeks in Pakistan and the frontier region, says the attack represented a direct warning to the international aid community.
ISLEY: I have visited Pakistan over the past several years on many occasions.
CORBEN: The real challenge over the next few months will be the turn of the weather and how much time will be taken up in the fighting and whether that is concluded before the winter comes. That would be a serious situation?
ISLEY: Exactly. I think that's fairly unique about the present humanitarian
CORBEN: But Risley says there is a common theme among many of the refugees' comments and those who had fled their homes - for the military operation to succeed in driving out the Taliban from their region.
ISLEY: We know that the government shares with us these concerns and they want
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