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Displaced Pakistanis face miserable Eid

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Pakistani families uprooted by conflict with the Taliban face a miserable Eidul Fitr, with no cash to splash on celebrations and longing to return to homes they fear no longer exist. ‘All I want is to go back home this Eid,’ said Khalida Bibi, a 10-year-old girl standing in a queue to collect packages from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in the Jalozai camp for displaced people in northwest Pakistan. — AFP Photos/A Majeed

In this photograph taken on September 17, 2009, an internally displaced girl sits alongside Eid packages distributed by the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR in the Jalozai camp, ahead of the Eidul Fitr festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramazan.

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