PESHAWAR, June 17: The World Food Programme (WFP), which feeds displaced Afghans, is seriously running short of wheat flour and has reduced the quantity of food it offers to the returnees, says a press release.

The UN food agency, which provides three months’ supply of wheat flour to each repatriating Afghan family, has reduced the quantity from 150kg to 50kg due to the prevailing crisis. Many Afghan families, returning to the southern Afghanistan, are receiving vouchers due to wheat shortage.

The press release issued here on Monday said that more than one million Afghans have returned to their homeland from Pakistan, Iran and other countries during the last four months.

Initially, the UN refugee agency estimated that 800,000 displaced people would return to their homeland under the repatriation programme.