“Give them hope, for God’s sake”

From my latest Dawn column, just published:

“The APPNA convention and my conversations with Todd [Shea] are likely to find their way into the new book I’m writing about Pakistan since 2004, to which this column is informally a companion. Above all, I wanted to hear from Todd about the situation in Mardan, where CDRS mobile teams are working.

“‘It’s not good,’ he said. ‘The monsoon rain season, people are not going back to their homes, they’ve been living in people’s homes for upwards of six-seven weeks, and in camps, and these places are not getting medical services. …’”

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