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More Post Zarb-Azb failure:
Poor planning on the part of the Pakistani government and even poorer planning has led to some tragic consequences for Wazir tribes-women.:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1122782/lif...thout-id-cards
Life at Bannu camp is even harder for women without ID cards
Poor planning on the part of the Pakistani government and even poorer planning has led to some tragic consequences for Wazir tribes-women.:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1122782/lif...thout-id-cards
Life at Bannu camp is even harder for women without ID cards
BANNU: Thousands of women displaced by fighting are struggling to get food and other aid because they lack identity cards and conservative elders have forbidden them from going to distribution centres.
‘I have no chance’
One woman sobbed behind her veil as she waited outside the main sports stadium in Bannu, watching men with wheelbarrows carry out sacks of flour and containers of water. “They are not letting me in,” she said. “I have no chance to enter.”
The woman, Basmira, had no identity and no male relative. She stood near a cluster of women in burqas beseeching stick-wielding police and army guards to let them into the stadium.
Another woman, Maimoona, said her husband was killed by a stray bullet three months ago.
“You see those sticks in their hands? They will beat us if we try to go in,” said 30-year-old Maimoona.
Two other women said they were also widows and one said her son was a drug addict.
A soldier at the gate said women were welcome to go to other distribution sites around the city.
However, women were also being denied entry at four other centres.
“This lack of ID cards is a major problem for widows, second wives, and many women whose husbands are not here,” said Yasmin Akhtar, regional manager for Khwendo Kor, an aid group helping about 1,000 of the women.
One woman sobbed behind her veil as she waited outside the main sports stadium in Bannu, watching men with wheelbarrows carry out sacks of flour and containers of water. “They are not letting me in,” she said. “I have no chance to enter.”
The woman, Basmira, had no identity and no male relative. She stood near a cluster of women in burqas beseeching stick-wielding police and army guards to let them into the stadium.
Another woman, Maimoona, said her husband was killed by a stray bullet three months ago.
“You see those sticks in their hands? They will beat us if we try to go in,” said 30-year-old Maimoona.
Two other women said they were also widows and one said her son was a drug addict.
A soldier at the gate said women were welcome to go to other distribution sites around the city.
However, women were also being denied entry at four other centres.
“This lack of ID cards is a major problem for widows, second wives, and many women whose husbands are not here,” said Yasmin Akhtar, regional manager for Khwendo Kor, an aid group helping about 1,000 of the women.
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