Call Them Pakistanis, Not IDPs

Call Them Pakistanis, Not IDPs

Pakistanis, Not IDPs
Three months ago when I wrote this, three million Pakistanis who are refugees today in their own homeland were half a million. But listening to Pakistani TV anchors you’d think they were some ‘other people’. Not Pakistanis. Just IDPs.  Inadvertently, the Pakistani media dehumanized these Pakistanis, and ‘de-Pakistanized’ them. [...]