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US Provides $110 Million More to Pakistanis Fleeing Swat Conflict
FrontLines - June 2009
WASHINGTON —At a May
19 White House announcement,
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton said that the United States
would send $110 million more
in aid to Pakistanis fleeing their
homes as the Pakistani Army
sought to rein in Taliban militants.
The aid comes in addition to
$62.2 million USAID and other U.S. agencies have sent in recent
months to assist Pakistanis
displaced by fighting in Swat,
Buner, and the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas.
USAID sent a Disaster
Assistance Response Team to
support the Pakistan government
relief efforts, manage the U.S.
government response, and coordinate
with the humanitarian
community.
About 2 million people fled
their homes, with many of them
moving in with relatives or host
families. Some 80,000 refugees
moved into sweltering camps set
up by the government and the
United Nations, most of them near
Mardan. On May 14, columns of
cars, trucks, and horse-drawn carts
packed with people and laden with
bundles of possessions streamed
out of Mingora, in Swat, according
to witnesses and television reports.
Clinton said the U.S. assistance—$
100 million from USAID and the Departments of
State and Agriculture, and $10
million through the Defense
Department—would be delivered
through NGOs, international
organizations, and the Pakistan
government. She voiced confidence
in the Pakistani general in
charge of relief, Nadeem Ahmad,
saying he won praise for directing
aid to 2.8 million homeless
survivors of the October 2005
earthquake that left more than
73,000 Pakistanis dead.
Clinton said $26 million of
the $100 million would be used
to purchase local wheat from a
bumper harvest, thereby boosting
local farmers and markets.
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