WAR ON TERROR OR WAR OF TERROR?

Sandwiched between bullets and bacteria, children North Waziristan (NW) are paying an undue price. Worse than the National average of under 5 mortality rate (87.0 per 1000 live birth), population under 15 (35 %), Gender Equity Index (123 of 186) and female above 15 being illiterate (55 %), catastrophic epidemics can emerge in conflict affected North Waziristan IDPs. Being worse part of a country where major causes of high neonatal, infant and under-5 mortality rates are malnutrition, diarrhea, acute respiratory illness and other communicable vaccine prevented diseases,1 what picture capture your mind thinking of the IDP camps?