This Article is From Jan 01, 2010

UN to relocate foreign staff in Pakistan

United Nations: Prompted by terrorist attacks on their foreign workers, the United Nations announced a relocation of its staff from Pakistan.

The UN has suffered casualties in its operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This has led to the relocation of International staff members to safer sites within Afghanistan with 200 workers going to other duty stations within the region.

Five UN personnel were killed and nine wounded, in an attack which took place at a guest house in Kabul, by Taliban militants. This came shortly after the UN lost five more members in a terrorist attack at the World Food Program office in Islamabad.
Following the attack, Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon has appealed to both, the Security Council and General Assembly to allocate more resources to provide better security to UN workers located in and surrounding Kabul.

The UN spokesperson in Pakistan said that the move would be for at least six months and would be reevaluated in three months times.

It has been noted by the UN that the movement of technical staff and members of its International staff but not senior positions and those conducting humanitarian relief work.
Most of the immediate aid work like providing basic facilities for the thousands of internally displaced people from the disturbances in the North West Frontier Province is done by the UN's local Pakistani workers.

This year 27 civilian staffers have been killed- more than half in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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