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Nearly one million flee fighting in Swat: UN

AFP, Geneva
The number of people who have fled fighting in Pakistan over the past two weeks surged to nearly one million on Friday, UN agencies said.
There was little sign of the massive flow of people abating, said William Spindler, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency, as the total number of displaced in northwestern Pakistan exceeded 1.5 million.
By early Friday more than 987,000 people were registered as displaced since May 2, he told journalists.
That recent displacement added to the burden of helping more than 550,000 people who had fled earlier fighting in the same northwestern regions since late August.
"Every hour thousands of people are arriving at registration sites to be registered as internally displaced people," Spindler added.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Antonio Guterres, who is cur-
rently visiting Pakistan, noted that if massive support is not mobilised immediately, the crisis could have "an enormous destabilising impact on the affected populations."
The UNHCR is calling for hundreds of millions of dollars in international funding for the relief effort.
A major appeal for aid is likely to be launched next week, the interim UN humanitarian coordinator in Pakistan, Martin Mogwanja, said in a telephone news conference.
On Friday, Pakistan's military suspended a curfew in a northwest city where it is fighting Taliban guerrillas, officials said, allowing tens of thousands of civilians to flee the area.
When a similar curfew was relaxed in the northwestern Swat valley last Sunday, more than 100,000 civilians fled the area in the space of a few hours, aid workers said.
"Essentially it is the entire population of certain parts of Swat, Lower Dir,
Malakand and Buner who are being displaced," said Mogwanja. More than half of them are children.
Relief agencies said the displaced were largely in a good condition and nourished for now since more than 80 percent of them had found refuge with host families and had fled only recently.
But their hosts were often impoverished as well and the UN warned the burden would become apparent in the comingweeks.
"The humanitarian community remains extremely concerned that the continued displacement over the coming weeks and months would require a massive response programme form the humanitarian community and the government," Mogwanja said.
Some parts of the northwest where fighting was under way were out of bounds for relief agencies following "specific threats" by armed militants, he explained.