WHO Call for Health Aid in Pakistan

(11 Sep 08 - RV) Pakistani security forces have killed 20 militants near the Afghan border. An intensifying insurgency in Afghanistan has piled pressure on Pakistan to go after militants operating from sanctuaries in remote enclaves on its side of the border.

Meanwhile, The World Heath Organization issued an urgent appeal for nearly $10 million in aid today to provide humanitarian relief for roughly half a million people left homeless because of recent flooding and ongoing violence in the country..

WHO’s representative in Pakistan is Dr. Khalif Bile. He says the number of displaced people is likely to increase once the month of Ramadan is finished.…