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DKF take part in flood relief efforts in KP by distribution of food, medicines, sanitation and household items.

DKF tar del i hjelp til flomofre i KP provinsen med matvarer, medisiner, sanitasjonsutstyr og andre varer.

For stoette til DKFs noedhjelpsarbeid:

Sandnes Sparebank, Kontonr: 3260-3541498

 eller kontakt

atilla.iftikhar@gmail.com

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“YOU MAY

BUY & SELL

OUR POLITICIANS

YOU MAY

DRONE US

FROM THE SKY

BUT REMEMBER 

WE BURIED

U.S.S.R

IN THESE MOUNTAINS

AND NOW WE’LL

BURY YOU”

Quote: PAKISTAN KA KHUDA HAFIZ.COM

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Daswandi Khan stiftelsen oensker aa etablere et ‘Centre of Rural Development in Gujrat’.

Objektivet er aa blant annet laere kvinner i dette landbruksomraadet metoder og bruk av verktoey for egen okonomisk overlevelse. Vi arbeider ogsaa med aa tilby engangs ‘micro-loans’ for kvinner slik at disse kan sette igang med smaa okonomiske virksomheter i eget hjem og bidra okonomisk. Det er et sterkt behov for slike tiltak i landsbyene i Pakistan. Vi ser frem til aa rekke ut til minst 500 husholdninger de foerste 2 aara mellom 2011 til 2012. 

For mer informasjon www.dk-stiftelse.page.tl

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Alltid synd med norske soldater drept i Afghanistan, men det er to forhold som har ytterligere forverret sikkerhetssituasjonen i den ‘norsk regionen’ i nordvestlige Afghanistan:

1) Xe leiesoldater (tidl. Blackwater) skal sikre amerikanske konsulater og ’spesielle interesser’ i Herat og Mazar-e Sharif. Mellom disse to byene ligger de ‘norske omraadene’. Xe (tidl. Blackwater) ble nylig ble kastet ut av Irak for grov kriminalitet og blir naa en del av de ‘allierte’ styrkene i nord/nordvest.

2) Norges krasse kritikk av Iran i FN hjelper heller ikke Norge i Afghanistan. Norge har blitt mer og mer kritisk til de iranske myndighetene som skaper en usikker tilstand for norske interesser i saerlig vestlige Afghanistan som er dypt paavirket av Tehran.

Dermed ikke rart at norske soldater blir mer og mer angrepet disse sitter “midt oppi suppa”. NATO og den norske politikken i Afghanistan er kjoert fast og det er bare pga. lojalitet til alliansen og USA at Norge fortsetter sitt militaere presens i landet. Norge er til sist en del av en militaer okkupasjon i Afghanistan som flertallet av afghanere ikke oensker noe av.

Islamabad, 28.06.10

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Islamabad/Oslo 15. juni 2010

Norges forsvarsmakt vil bruke 1 milliard kroner i Afghanistan i 2010. Langt mindre brukes for den sivile oppbyggingsinnsatsen i Afghanistan og veldig lite til den sivile innsatsen i stammeterritoriet i Pakistan. En slik innsats vil ikke lykkes og det er kun en kort tid igjen til NATOs “exit” fra Afghanistan.

Daswandi Khan Foundation (DKF), et norsk-pakistansk sivil rehabiliterings og rekonstruksjons initiativ vil fokusere omkring sivile prosjektet for Pakistans stammeterritori. Pakistans vestlige regionen er ikke Norges prioritet, men representerer nokkelen for fred og stabilitet i hele regionen. Hele FATA og KP provinsen trenger sivil rehabiliterings og oppbyggingsfase – en “Marshall Plan” – og dette vil avgjore fred og stabilitet.

Stoett initiativet!

For mer info:

www.dk-stiftelse.page.tl

Bank Direkt – Sandnes Sparebank

Stiftelsen DKF

Kontonr: 3260-35-41498

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UN making efforts to raise funds for Pakistan’s IDPs

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations is stepping up efforts to raise urgently needed funds for some 1.3 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Pakistan’s north-west region.

The UN special envoy in charge of humanitarian affairs for Pakistan, Jean-Maurice Ripert, met donors on Thursday at UN Headquarters in New York to seek additional money as the UN appeal 537-million-dollar UN humanitarian appeal launched in February for IDPs’ welfare has remained under funded.

The United Nations had so far received only 106 million dollars from the donors, barely 20 percent of the total appeal.

“We are becoming a little bit nervous and worried about the financing,” Ripert, ex-ambassador of France to the U.N. said while talking to newsmen. He warned that there was no funding at all for sectors such as agriculture or education in Pakistan’s northwest and tribal regions. “I met with donors this morning to launch a new appeal to cover this,” he added.

On Monday, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan, Martin Mogwanja, said some of the humanitarian projects to help people may have to be suspended because of shortage of funds. Ripert, who was assigned as UN envoy to Pakistan last October, said the number of IDPs was now down to roughly 1.3 million, most of them sheltered in host communities and only 126,000 living in camps.

Ripert, who for security reasons lives in Pakistan only two weeks every month, also acts as special adviser to the UN secretary general in the Friends of Democratic Pakistan group.

The group of 20 countries and six international organizations, including the United States, Britain, France, China, the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank, aims to support economic and social development as a means of stabilizing the nuclear-armed south Asian country.

Ripert said the group would hold a ministerial session in Brussels next July 12 and 13 at the invitation of the European Union. The meeting would focus on prospects for key reforms to restore state authority and promote the rule of law, and for tackling the energy and water scarcity crises in Pakistan’s northwest, he added”

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Bringing FATA into mainstream

PESHAWAR, Feb 24:

Speakers discussing post-operation strategy in FATA here on Wednesday stressed the need for limiting the fighting and isolating the militants for bringing FATA into national mainstream. Giving presidential remarks at the discussion held at the Pakistan Institute of Political Affairs, former federal minister Ejaz ul Haq said General (rtd) Pervez Musharraf created crisis of national integration and security by following the US agenda under former president GW Bush. He said answer to the problem lay in social and economic development of FATA and initiating confidence-buillding negotiations with tribal elders. Governor Orakzai was following the best policy but the US leadership was not allowing the process to work, he said.

Atilla Amir Iftikhar, head of charity ‘Daswandi Foundation’ stressed the need for evolving a culture of consensus and accomodation. He said appalling social and economic disparities and widespread illiteracy and poverty were the real causes of social insurgency. These ills together with abuse of power from the elites caused more and more people into rebellious militant outfits. Brigadier (rtd)

Farooq Ahmed Khan said a national government was required to tackle the highly complicated situation as the rulers in Islamabad were more occupied with political power games than attending to national security concerns and people’s miseries. He also pointed that India was becoming a bigger threat to Pakistan and was threatening Pakistan both from the east and west. Khan predicted that Pakistan would have to crush the hostile insurgency in the tribal areas by 2011 and start concentrating on other security challenges in the region. Source:

The Herald News, 24/02/10

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DKFs Special Advisor Prof. Dr. Anjum S. Khattak, specialist in refugees and IDP crisis in Afghanistan and Pakistan have developed out an implementation strategy for successful completion of DKF projects in IDP rehabilitation and reconstruction activites. The plan work out effective tools on performance appraisal and ways to estimate developing needs and traits in particular related to children and female rehabilitation facilities. DKF will also hopefully conduct a mini-seminar next month together with the Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad on the further security and humanitarian conditions in the FATA and NWFP.

More information subscribe to newsletter from: mail@daswandi.org.

Islamabad 21.01.2010

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