Activity approval memorandum : Afghan humanitarian relief

This interagency project will be implemented by the Department of State, which is responsible for policy oversight, A.I.D. for field administration, and the Department of Defense (DOD) for supply logistics and flight operations. The Government of Pakistan (GOP) will provide significant logistics support; the GOP will also establish the ground rules under which relief activities operate, to ensure that GOP security concerns are not violated. Relief supplies will be flown into Pakistan on a regular biweekly schedule. These supplies will consist of DOD-excess non-lethal, A.I.D.-financed, and PVO-donated goods and will include such items as clothing, tents, medicine, hand tools, field equipment, dried food, and possibly, pack animals. The GOP will provide the logistic support for receiving the cargo and warehousing it, and will determine its distribution and control its delivery to the Islamic Unity of the Afghan Mujahideen (Seven-Party Alliance). On return flights, the project will airlift critically injured persons, who will receive pro-bono treatment in the United States or elsewhere. This medevac activity is also intended as a dramatic public statement of U.S. support to the Afghan cause, Generally, a U.S. Air Force C-5 will arrive early in the month with 60-80 tons of humanitarian supplies, and a smaller C-141 will deliver 12-15 tons of cargo later in the month. On its return flight, the C-141 will serve as a medevac flight for war-wounded Afghans. Flights for mules will be added to the schedule every 5 weeks, if - in accordance with GOP security concerns - this can be done without public attention.