U.N. Pulls Part of Staff From Pakistan on Safety Concerns

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG

The United Nations is temporarily pulling about a third of its international staff from Pakistan because of the deteriorating security situation, despite Pakistani objections to the move, U.N. and Pakistani officials said.

U.N. officials said only "nonessential" staff were being moved out and the withdrawal would not affect operations to aid people displaced by fighting between Pakistan's army and the Taliban in the country's northwestern mountains, and refugees who have fled three decades of conflict in Afghanistan.

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