KARACHI:

“It is after 17 years that I am hearing this term, Internally Displaced People (IDPs ), being a child growing up in Balambat Timergara, Dir,” Noorena told The Express Tribune from Peshawar. “I know what they are going through is because I have seen what it means to live through the 2009 operation in Dir.

“I understand that these people will never get the life they had back, they will not get their houses back, nothing will be the same for them. Raising the voice on this is to make people pay attention to the ongoing crisis.”

The international squash player is teaming up with Lal Zaman, who works for the sports for development organization Right to Play, to help the IDPs gathering at the border of her village in Dir, fleeing from the conflict in Bajaur, as the Pakistan Army oper

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