Pakistan fighting reverses flow of refugees, stirs unease in Afghanistan

By Jessica Donati KHOST Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of refugees fleeing an offensive by Pakistan's army have poured across the lawless border into ramshackle camps on rugged hills in Afghanistan, stirring unease that Taliban militants may be hiding among them. For the first time in more than 30 years beleaguered residents are escaping into Afghanistan and not out of it, an irony not lost on local officials or refugee agencies. "These communities for decades have been the ones benefitting from support from tribal communities in North Waziristan when they had to flee," said Bo Shack, the top official in Afghanistan of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Read More http://ift.tt/Vtkzqw