Pakistanis are fleeing the ongoing fighting against Taliban militants in "the biggest and fastest exodus that we have seen in recent years," United Nations refugee agency spokesman Ron Redmond says.
U.N.: 85,000 Pakistanis flee fighting daily
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Pakistan seeks national support against Taliban
The Pakistani government convened a meeting on Monday of nearly all of the country’s political parties, in an effort to consolidate broad national support for its military operation to crush Taliban militants in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Valley.
India urges ‘pause’ in Sri Lankan fighting
India has called for a "pause" in the fighting between Sri Lankan forces and Tamil rebels to allow the evacuation of thousands of civilians trapped in the nation’s northern war zone. In a statement issued Saturday, India’s external affairs minister, Pranab Mukherjee, warned that the humanitarian crisis was “building up with every passing day” in Sri Lanka.