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| UN sounds alarm on Pakistan aid |
| 2010-05-01 |
| GENEVA: Lack of funds is threatening aid programmes providing housing, food and health care to hundreds of thousands of people in some of the most tense areas of the country, the United Nations said on Friday. Perhaps if Zardari put his ten percent back into the pot ... The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said UN agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) faced a serious shortage of funds jeopardising basic life-saving activities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA. The two regions are a focus of the government's efforts to battle al Qaeda and Taliban in support of the US-led war in Afghanistan. “It's a really big funding problem for Pakistan and it has consequences – new programmes cannot be launched and existing programmes are already being cut back for lack of money,' OCHA spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told a briefing. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Maybe Pakistan should buy less French Submarines, Swedish AWACS and Chinese Warplanes? |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-05-01 20:11 |