Pakistan Tells Doctors Without Borders to Pull Out of Tribal Areas
Pakistan on Wednesday told the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders to stop its work and leave the country’s impoverished tribal areas that border Afghanistan, the organization said, ending its 14-year stay in the volatile region. Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, works out of two health facilities in the Kurram district of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas region in Pakistan, which has been plagued by militancy over the past decade and was the location of many American drone strikes targeting commanders from Al Qaeda and other militant groups.
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