“People are coming out of the area and around 90,000 people have left the area and have been shifted to safer places in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank,” said Shahab Ali Shah, the top administrative official in South Waziristan.
“People have started coming out of the area because of the fear of an army operation,” said Amir Latif, chief administrative official in Tank district.
Hameedullah Khan, a senior government official in Dera Ismail Khan, said his district had registered about 8,300 families, or about 60,000 people.
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