Japan will provide $16.2 million in assistance to back U.N. activities for the welfare of people displaced from Afghanistan and Pakistan's tribal areas.
The announcement was made Tuesday at a joint ceremony attended by Japanese Charge d'Affaires ad Interim Takashi Katae and U.N. Resident Coordinator Jacqueline Badcock at the World Food Program office in Islamabad.
Katae said the government attached high importance to the stability of the region near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border since it is critical to the stability of Pakistan and neighboring countries. He pointed out that the Afghan refugees and internally displaced people left as their homes had been made unsafe by terrorism.