All the TDP camps have been winded off except the Bakakhel camp
PESHAWAR: The Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA) Disaster Management Authority (FDMA) announced winding off all Temporary Displaced People (TDP) camps except the Bakakhel camp.
FDMA also claimed to repatriate 338,000 families to their homes in five different agencies. “So far 320,465 families, displaced due to terror and military operations, have been repatriated and rehabilitated whereas remaining 17,450 families are on the way to their homes,” remarked FDMA Director General Sirajul Haq in Miranshah.
According to the FDMA documents, the families that went back to their homes include 16,264 from North Waziristan and 1,186 from Khyber Agency. However, there is nothing mentioned about the displaced families from different tribal agencies now settled or still residing in Peshawar, Dera Ismael Khan, Bannu, Islamabad and other cities and towns throughout the country.
FDMA claimed that it has distributed an amount of Rs8 billion amongst the repatriated tribesmen giving Rs35,000 per family. Whereas so far, an amount of Rs11 billion has been distributed among tribesmen whose houses have been destroyed or damaged. However, the survey of damaged/destroyed houses and other properties in certain pockets of FATA, Mehsud dominated areas of South Waziristan, Miranshah and sub-divisions of Mir Ali is in progress.
As per documents, the TDP of both Mohmand and Bajaur Agencies have already been repatriated to their homes by 2014. However, a number of families from both the tribal agencies, adjacent to Afghanistan, are still scattered. Over 300 families, mostly tenants who were displaced from Bajaur Agency in 2006-2007 are still scattered in Jalozai and Risalpur of Nowshehra district.
Landlords from two different villages of Bajaur are reluctant to take back these tenants. Repatriation of families belonging to Bakakhel area, adjacent to Miranshah headquarter of North Waziristan, was stopped after September 12 explosion that took a life and injured several others.
The victims were busy in clearing of the house when the explosive material, left behind either by militants or buried by unknown assailants, went off with a big bang. These families are still scattered in the area and demanding early repatriation.
