Only $479 million received till now for IDPs: UN official

Published on 06 November 2009

The United Nations Representative in Pakistan on Thursday said that out of the total $680 million pledged by the international community for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), only $479 million have been received so far and remaining 30 percent of the pledges are still awaited. (..) World Food Program Deputy Country Director, Dominique Frankefort said that since the Food Cluster started distributing food in DI Khan and Tank, around 125,000 IDPs from South Waziristan have been provided with 4,000 tons of food.

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