Generous payout by US for the displaced earns Holbrooke no friends ... - Hindu

Hearing their woeS: U.S. special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke (left) talks with a displaced man at the Chota Lahore refugee camp in Swabi, northwest Pakistan, on Thursday. Mr. Holbrooke, who visited refugees who fled the fighting between the military and Taliban militants, urged European and Muslim nations to help the exiled people and avert a humanitarian crisis.

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ISLAMABAD: U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke may have announced generous sums of money to help Pakistan deal with the humanitarian crisis of people displaced by the fighting in Swat, but that has not melted the butter in Pakistani mouths. Mr. Holbrooke’s appearance, after his arrival here on Wednesday, with President Asif Ali Zardari at a joint press conference, at which Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was also present, has become a controversial issue with the Pakistani media raising questions of protocol.

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