About three million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Dir are getting nothing in relief as they are facing registration problems due to complicated process that can not be met out even in normal situation and facing problems to move to safer places due to operation and curfew.
This was stated by 6-member delegation of MNAs, representative of UNHCR Guenet Guebre-Christo and World Food Programme here on Monday who called on Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Safron), Najamuddin Khan. The Federal Minister has urged the government institutions concerned to accelerate the work of registration of IDPs and complete it immediately so that they can be provided with relief items to mitigate their miseries.
The minister expressed these views while talking a six-member delegation of MNAs Azmat Ullah, Syed Alla-ud-Din, Muzaffar-ul-Malik, Istiqbal Khan, Lal Muhammad Khan and Shazada Mohi-ud-Din from Malakand Division, country representative of UNHCR Guenet Guebre-Christo and World Food Programme here on Monday. In the meeting the minister informed that he will move his headquarters to NWFP in compliance with the orders of the President of Pakistan to oversee relief operations together with the Federal Co-ordinator Asma Alamgir, MNA and chief minister of the province.
The chief minister will chair regular meetings, which would be attended by federal co-ordinator, senior Minister NWFP, Minister for Safron, Chief Secretary NWFP and convenors of District Relief Committees to review relief efforts and prompt decisions to ensure transparency, efficiency and effective co-ordination, the minister added. The minister told that District Relief Committees have been set up in Mardan, Swabi, Nowshera, Peshawar and Charsadda districts, which will meet every alternative day to monitor relief efforts in their respective jurisdictions.-PR