Chairman NDMA rejects UN figure about IDPs.ISLAMABAD, May 09, 2009 (Balochistan Times) -- Chairman National Disaster Management Authority General (Retd) Farooq Ahmed has said that six camps have been established to accommodate and facilitate the internally displaced persons Any person who has left their residence by reason of real or imagined danger but has not left the territory of their own country. (IDPs) from the Malakand division Malakand Division was an administrative division of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. see displacement. people have been registered so far. The displaced persons displaced person: see refugee. are being provided one-month ration, he said. He said the people have not migrated in the number as said by the United Nations, however, it could be the number of people affected in the area. The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said half a million people have fled fighting in north-western Pakistan in the past few days, bringing the total displaced in recent months to 1 million. A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner said up to 200,000 people have arrived in safe areas in the past few days and that another 300,000 are on the move or are about to flee. The displaced persons are in need of the new clothes, he said, adding that, friends of Pakistan should help Pakistan in the time of need. Philanthropists can also send cheques in the name of National Disaster Management Authority to support the displaced persons, he requested. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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