The government has put the official figure of internally displaced persons (IDPs) at 983,000 and claimed that they are being taken care of quite well.

Minister of States and Frontier Regions retired Lt Gen Qadir Baloch briefed the prime minister on matters relating to people displaced from North Waziristan after the military launched an operation against militants in the middle of last month.

He said that more than 983,000 people had been registered as IDPs at various registration points today. “Camps are being managed well with uninterrupted supply of electricity,” the minister was quoted as saying in an official statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office.