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UN orders staffers to leave Peshawar
The United Nations has increased the security level in Peshawar and ordered its international staff to leave the province in the wake of recent attacks on international aid workers, including the killing of a USAID official. The UN sources told Daily Times that following a series of suicide blasts and killing of foreigners, the UN had raised the security level in Peshawar to phase four, adding all UN projects in Peshawar might be closed. The international staff will be relocated outside the province and shifted to Islamabad, the sources said, adding only the staff concerned with emergency or security operations would remain in the area. The dependents of UN international staff in Islamabad, which is under security phase three, have either left the country or have restricted their movement, the sources said, adding all international and senior local staff were operating from their houses in Islamabad.Posted by: Fred 2008-11-16 |
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