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Internal Displacement is one of the major issues Pakistan is facing. Pakhtuns living in FATA and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have mainly been displaced by conflict. Numerous large and small-scale military operations have been carried out in the whole of FATA and Malakand division to eliminate militancy. However, it is largely the local noncombatant population which bears the brunt of both militancy and counter militancy military operations. The number of the displaced persons from FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is around six million. Protection of this large displaced population became problematic for a country facing multiple challenges- on political, security and economic fronts. The displaced persons are “orphans of the conflict” who are in dire need of protection and sustenance during displacement. The United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (1998) is a non-binding but comprehensive document on the issue of displacement. It aims to provide guidance to states facing displacements. Protection of the displaced persons is one of the cross-cutting themes of the Guiding Principles Moreover, it deals with all stages of displacement such as predisplacement situation, during displacement and after return situation. This paper examines the protection problems of IDPs- predominantly Pakhtuns – displaced from Malakand and FATA in the light of the Guiding.

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Sohail Ahmad, Nasreen Ghufran, Tehseena Usman. (2017) Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced Persons in Pakistan and Issues of their Protection: A case of displaced Pakhtuns & the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, , Volume-11, Issue-3.
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