Pakistan faces a "major crisis" in managing damage and dislocation from its U.S.-endorsed military offensive against the Taliban, the Obama administration's special envoy to the region said Wednesday.
Richard Holbrooke told reporters at the State Department that he visited refugee areas last week, met with Pakistani government officials and returned convinced that the real test is not so much Pakistan's military success as the way in which it handles reconstruction and resettlement of internal refugees.
Of the refugee camps he said, "It's not a good sight, but it has not yet reached the level of a situation where people are dying of …

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