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Following a formal request from the government of Pakistan, the World Food Programme (WFP) would start providing food in the flood-hit areas of Sindh...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Friday signed an agreement to launch a joint initiative to improve Pakistan’s...

The United Nations is launching a food distribution programme by the end of the month for the people affected by military operation in Kurram...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is reducing food assistance to millions of Afghans due to a shortage of donor funds, according to...

KARACHI - The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that the migration of people from the arid zone areas of the province due to drought has forced their children to leave schools where they were enrolled. The project director of the WFP's Assistance to Girls Primary Education in Sindh (AGPES), Dr Shamaroza has informed Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah in a report that students in the arid zone areas are not dropping out of schools due to the closure of the project, but the actual

GENEVA The government in Pakistan has pushed food prices too high for an impoverished population, as malnutrition levels rise despite the recovery of crops after devastating floods, a UN food relief official said on Wednesday.
Wolfgang Herbinger, director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Pakistan, said food crops especially wheat in the southern flood-hit plains were recovering fast with the prospect of decent crops over the coming weeks. "The crop outlook is not bad but the

ISLAMABAD - Owing to serious security concerns, the World Food Programme (WFP) and other UN bodies may reduce their staff in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Tribal Areas in the wake of deadly suicide bombing in Bajaur agency on Thursday.
The WFP closed down its food distribution programme in Bajaur Agency after the suicide attack that killed over 40 people and it will soon go for a security review as far as its other operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other Tribal Areas are

ISLAMABAD - The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced the closure of its food distribution centre in Khar district of Bajaur Agency following a deadly suicide bombing outside the facility on Saturday.
"WFP's food distribution operations across Bajaur have been suspended. It has four food distribution points in Bajaur, all of which have been closed," Amjad Jamal, WFP spokesman told Pakistan Today. Asked whether the closure was permanent, the spokesman said the distribution

ISLAMABAD: The World Food Programme (WFP) will launch a relief operation with US $ 600 to address the food security issues of 12 million Pakistani people.
"This will be the second largest operation of the WFP in the world after Sudan and it will address the food issues of 12 million vulnerable people facing food insecurity owing to high inflation and floods in the country and unrest in the tribal areas", Amjad Jamal, the WFP spokesman told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
He said

ISLAMABAD: Shortage of funds will force the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut 50 percent of its food supplies to flood victims from November 1, while it may roll back the operation completely by December.
"The WFP has extreme shortage of funds, as fresh funding is not available and we have no choice apart from cutting down our supplies by 50 percent. In fact we have stocks for November only. Now in this scenario we have made a strategy to cut down the food supplies to make them