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Internally Displaced Persons: Impacts of the US Drone Strikes and Operation Zarb-I-Azb in FATA

Yousuf Storai and Muhammad Idrees

This paper primarily attempts to analyze the migration of people from Federally Administrated Tribal Area of Pakistan in the shape of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s). The paper also focuses the impacts of the US Drone strikes in the area. Moreover, the ongoing military operation, Zarb-i-Azb that has also given birth to internal migration is also discussed in the paper. It basically argue that both the US Drone strikes as well as military offence are playing significant role in eliminating the networks of hardcore terrorists from the area but on other hand made thousands of families to flee to other parts of the country. While the theoretical framework used in the paper is “Lee’s migration model theory of push and full factors”. This is an explanatory study with Quantitative research design, whereas the data is collected by conducting unstructured interviews. Apart from this, existing data is also utilized in the study. Thus, the paper will help researchers and policy formulation desks in understanding the nexus between military operation and the US Drone strikes with regard to understanding the displacement of people in FATA.