U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
CENTRAL ASIA TASK FORCE
CENTRAL ASIA REGION - Complex Emergency
Fact Sheet #7, Fiscal Year (FY) 2002    October 12, 2001


Note: this Fact Sheet updates previously released Central Asia Region Fact
Sheets.

Numbers Affected

- The total known number of Afghans to have crossed into Pakistan since
September 11 remains 20,000.  Additional unknown numbers have crossed at
informal crossing points.

- There are no new reports of refugees crossing into Iran. Afghanistan

- Large population movements from urban to rural areas continue to be
reported; however, there has been no indication of mass population
movements towards borders.  The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) reported October 11 that it has been unable to access border areas
in Pakistan to monitor possible population movements.

- According to an October 11 report, Taliban forces are preventing people
from leaving Kabul in the direction of the southeastern city of Jalalabad,
a key route for people seeking to enter Pakistan's North West Frontier
Province (NWFP).

- The Taliban has reportedly imposed a tax on some humanitarian aid
deliveries along some routes.

- According to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (UNOCHA), negotiations are under way with Taliban officials to try
to recover equipment that was seized in Mazar-e-Sharif on October 8.

- According to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), wheat prices in Kabul
have gone down, but prices in rural areas have increased due to rising
transportation costs.

- WFP reported October 11 that one hundred trucks are currently
transporting food into Afghanistan from Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and
Tajikistan, to the Afghan cities of Kabul, Herat, Andkhoi, and Faizabad.
WFP is also attempting to stock 2000 metric tons (MT) of food aid in the
Panjshir Valley, which becomes inaccessible due to snow as of November.

- WFP food stocks in Afghanistan as of October 11 total 9,287 MT. Pakistan

- Reuters reported that the chief spokesperson for the Government of
Pakistan has threatened to deport Afghan refugees for participation in
violent demonstrations against the U.S.

- UNHCR expressed frustration over obstacles to the agency's relief work
in Pakistan, specifically restrictions on staff movement due to security
concerns.

- According to UNHCR, local authorities in NWFP withdrew approval for six
of the eleven campsites allocated for refugee use in dry and remote tribal
areas of the province.

- According to BBC reports, security forces in Karachi fired shots and
clashed with Muslim radicals as they attacked an American restaurant
following Friday prayers.  Army troops were deployed to monitor anti-U.S.
protests in Quetta, while protests in Peshawar remained peaceful.

- According to Reuters, Afghan exiles are organizing a strategy planning
session in Pakistan on October 21 to form a united political platform
among groups opposed to the Taliban regime.


Iran

- According to an unconfirmed Agence France-Presse report, staff from
Iran's Red Crescent Society were shot at by Taliban forces while looking
at a potential refugee site in Qaen on the Afghan side of Iran's border,
and prevented by the Taliban from establishing a site on Afghan soil
across the border from Taybad.

- After deporting three busloads of Afghan refugees on October 9, Iran
assured UNHCR that it will refrain from further deportations.  UNHCR
reported that there have been no large-scale movements of refugees to the
Iran border.


Donor Activities

- UNOCHA reported October 10 that donor governments have pledged
approximately $740 million for assistance to Afghans.  Of this, $303
million has been pledged to the $585 million U.N. Donor Alert for
humanitarian activities for the next six months.  UNOCHA reported that of
the amount pledged to the Donor Alert, there have been $40 million in
confirmed contributions to date.


U.S. Government Activities

- On October 4, President George W. Bush announced a $320 million
assistance program for Afghanistan.  Funding will support assistance to
Afghans both inside and outside Afghanistan's borders, with support for
food and a wide variety of other relief needs.

- On October 4, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs
Christina B. Rocca redeclared a complex humanitarian disaster in
Afghanistan for FY 2002.  U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan William B. Milam
issued a disaster declaration for Afghan refugees in Pakistan on February
2, 2001.  To date, FY 2001 and FY 2002 USG humanitarian assistance
provided by USAID/OFDA, USAID/FFP, USAID/Democracy & Governance (DG),
USDA, the Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and
Migration (State/PRM), the joint Department of State/Department of Defense
Demining Program, the Department of State's Bureau International Narcotics
and Law Enforcement Affairs (State/INL) and the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) totals $185,147,625, including both assistance inside
Afghanistan and assistance to Afghan refugees in neighboring countries.

- In Tajikistan, On October 10, 2001, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires James A.
Boughner declared a disaster due to drought, and requested funds for a
seed and fertilizer distribution program.  USAID/OFDA responded by
providing $998,180 through the U.S. Embassy to CARE for the purchase and
distribution of winter wheat seeds and fertilizer.

- To date, the Department of Defense (DOD) has airdropped 140,000
Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDRs), valued at $602,000, into Afghanistan.


Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 USG Assistance to Afghanistan

Total USAID/OFDA   $12,599,441
Total USAID/FFP    $31,200,000
Total USAID/DG     $   450,000
Total USDA         $99,800,000
Total State/PRM    $29,828,659
Total State/HDP    $ 2,800,000
Total State/INL    $ 1,500,000
Total CDC          $   569,525

TOTAL USG Humanitarian Assistance FY 2001   $178,747,625


FY 2002 USG Assistance to Afghanistan

Total USAID/OFDA   $13,521,488
Total DOD          $   602,000

TOTAL USG Humanitarian Assistance FY 2002   $14,123,488

TOTAL USG Humanitarian Assistance
to Afghanistan FY 2001/2002         $192,871,113


FY 2002 USG Assistance to Tajikistan

Total USAID/OFDA Humanitarian Assistance
to Tajikistan FY 2002                       $998,180


Note: full details of funding above are available in weekly USAID/OFDA
Central Asia Region Situation Reports.


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