UN sounds alarm on Pakistan aid funding
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 Pakistan, the United Nations said on Friday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said UN agencies and non-governmental organisations faced a serious shortage of funds jeopardising basic life-saving activities in the Khyber Pahtunkhwa province, formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province, and the semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The two regions, bordering Afghanistan, are a focus of the Pakistan government's efforts to battle al Qaeda and Taliban militants in support of the US-led war in Afghanistan. (Reuters)
