"Most of the fleeing families are heading from North Waziristan to neighbouring Bannu city, said Lutfur Rehman, an officer with the provincial disaster management authority. Some of the families are heading to live with their relatives, he said.
Others, such as 65-year-old Janan Wazir and his 12 relatives, said they had no final destination in mind. “We really don’t know where we are going,” he said. He and his family were squeezed in a van with household items stuffed inside and packed on its roof. “We can’t see our women, our children in pain anymore,” he added.
Mr Wazir lived in Mir Ali, seen as a stronghold of the Pakistani Taleban and the target of many of the airstrikes."
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