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1.5 million IDPs registered so far: NWFP minister
 PESHAWAR: NWFP Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain said on Sunday that the number of registered internally displaced persons (IDPs) at relief camps and elsewhere from Swat, Buner and Lower Dir has risen to over 1.5 million, while the total number of IDPs is now estimated to be over 2 million. Addressing the media, the minister said that 150,000 IDPs from various troubled areas had been registered over the last 24 hours. Iftikhar appealed to donors and philanthropists for aid to help IDPs, and said every displaced family would be given Rs 25,000. He said that displaced families would also be given adequate funds to enable them to resettle in their hometowns. He hoped the federal government would soon send the funds announced for IDPs, and said that if required, the provincial government would suspend its Annual Development Programme and instead use the development funds to settle the IDPs. He said every relief camp would be provided an ambulance. Posted by: Steve White 2009-05-18 |
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