As Pakistan wages an offensive against militants, tensions with Afghanistan rise

Internally displaced Pakistanis, fleeing a military operation in the North Waziristan tribal agency, wait in line outside a World Food Programme aid distribution centre in Bannu on June 25, 2014. (A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images)

BY TIM CRAIG AND SHAIQ HUSSAIN June 26
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has evacuated more than 450,000 civilians from a terrorist-plagued district in the northwestern part of the country, but its offensive against the militants there is complicated by fresh tension with neighboring Afghanistan.

As Pakistan Wages an Offensive Against Militants, Tensions With Afghanistan Rise by Maria Anderson