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Viewpoint 49: The IDP-governance link

July 16, 2009: A viewpoint titled ‘The IDP-governance link’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International on July 16, 2009. Full text is accessible at Viewpoints
Context: As the theater of war in the Northern Areas of the country has widened, a humanitarian crisis has been precipitated with a mass exodus of over 2 million internally displaced people. This comment is an attempt to underscore certain key shortcomings of governance in terms of their implications for management of the crisis