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Asian LEADER 13 1 Jan - 14 Jan 2014 Pakistan still hosts largest number of refugees T he United Nations refugee agency warned last Friday that 2013 could become a record year for the highest levels of forced displacement ever seen, owing to unusually large numbers of new refugees and internally displaced people . The first half of 2013 is described as “one of the worst periods for forced displacement in decades,” by the Mid-year Trends 2013 report produced by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Some 5.9 million peo