Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published September 14, 2009.
At least 18 women and girls were killed in Pakistan today; they were trampled while waiting for a free flour give-away. As hundreds of women tried to enter a building in Karachi where the staple was being distributed, guards beat them back to clear the building. The flour was donated by an individual who was later arrested for not notifying authorities of the event.
Meanwhile, people returning to their homes in Pakistan's Swat Valley after the government closed two camps for Internally Displaced People. This followed an announcement from the Pakistani Military in August that it had defeated the Taliban and Swat was safe for civilians to return. But fighting continues on the outskirts of Swat and many have no homes to return to. Catherine Komp reads for FSRN´s Gabe Matthews in Mingora, Swat.
