Afghan Province Provides Safety for Pakistani Refugees

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2008 – Security has improved so much in Afghanistan’s Khowst province that Pakistani families are taking refuge there, officials said today.
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Jamal stressed that the families moving into his province are not Afghan refugees who lived in Pakistan, but rather are Pakistani citizens. Some 2.5 million Afghans lived in camps in Pakistan during the Soviet occupation and subsequent civil war.

Jamal and Schweitzer said the counterinsurgency strategy in place in the province has made the difference in security. The coalition stopped focusing on the enemy as the center of gravity and started focusing on the people of Afghanistan, the colonel said.

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