These days, it is too risky for Mr. Hussain to even travel to his constituency in Nowshera.

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In the Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, another area that was hard hit by the floods, Ulfat is patiently rebuilding her life.

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The areas worst hit, including Charsadda and the neighbouring district of Nowshera, as well as Punjab, are all big food producers.

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As his only son, 25-year-old Rashid Hussain, left the family's village home in Nowshera, just east of Peshawar, he was shot eight times and killed.

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About 260, 000 people have been living in 21 refugee camps in neighboring Mardan, Swabi, Nowshera, Peshawar and Charssada districts, but the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees say the "vast majority" of internally displaced Pakistanis have been staying with host families, rented houses or in schools.

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