Pakistan, Sept. 16 -- After more than a decade of being displaced from their homes by conflict, people have been returning to Tirah valley, a mountainous area in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the Afghan border.

Since 2022, families have returned to the valley to find damaged homes, a lack of basic services, and little sign of the support they had been promised for rebuilding their lives. A Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) team has been caring for returning communities in our clinic in Tirah since May 2022.

Until the early 2000s, Tirah, in the region formerly known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), experienced relative stability. However, the situation shifted dramatically in the aftermat...