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Posts tagged as “settlements”

Two more Afghan settlements bulldozed:

Report in Dawn, October 12th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Wednesday demolished two settlements of Afghans in I-12/2 and Margalla Town Phase 2. A press release issued by the civic body on Wednesday stated that the CDA’s enforcement directorate conducted an operation against the illegal settlements built near Nust. The CDA staff razed scores of rooms and a number of livestock farms with heavy machinery. As a result of the operation, land measuring…

Six killed in Rohingya camps after ICC official’s visit

AFP report, July 8, 2023COX’S BAZAR: Six Rohingya refugees were killed in a Bangladesh relief camp amid clashes that broke out just hours after an International Criminal Court prosecutor visited the settlements to gather testimony, police said on Friday. This week’s violence was the latest in a series of deadly clashes between the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and the Rohingya Solidarity Organi­sation (RSO), two rival insurgent groups operating in the camps. Faruq Ahmed, a…