Doctors without borders pull back in Kashmir

Tue, 08 May 2012

12:44

Mdecins Sans Frontires shut down its operations in the Kupwara district of Kashmir last month and will significantly reduce its activities in the valley as a whole, cutting a staff of 100 by more than half.

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