"The good news is that we have very good pledges, but the bad news for us is that too little is committed to the UN's flash appeal," UN emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland said in a statement.

A UN-coordinated appeal has received just two percent (1.5 million dollars) of the 95 million dollars needed for shelter and non-food supplies, the latest financial tracking information from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) showed.

Just four percent (2.5 million dollars) of the 58 million dollars needed for food aid has been paid over, while donors have delivered 17 percent of the 62 million dollar health budget.

Aid agencies have warned that those three sectors are crucial to the fate of an estimated two million people, including the homeless and injured, in mountainous Pakistani-administered Kashmir, with winter due to set in within weeks.

Ninety-two nations promised an additional 580 million dollars for Pakistan at a meeting with the United Nations and other agencies in Geneva on Thursday.

Only 16 million dollars of those fresh pledges were specifically directed to the appeal for emergency relief, according to a tally by UN officials.

The United Nations reiterated Thursday that it could not wait for promises to be turned into contributions after snow has begun to fall in the most-affected areas of Pakistan, cutting off remote quake-stricken communities.

About 1.6 million people are in need of assistance with food, and up to 1.6 million face winter without shelter of any kind, according to UN documents given to donor nations.

While 316,000 tents have been provided or are on their way to the devastated region, the UN estimates that another 210,000 need to be sent swiftly to the region before bad weather closes in.

The overall United Nations appeal has garnered 69 million dollars, or 13 percent of the 550 million dollar total.

That is equivalent to about one fifth of what was needed before the appeal was increased on Wednesday.

Excluding promised aid, the top contributors so far are the United States (10.8 million dollars), unnamed private donors (8.2 million dollars), Japan (eight million dollars), Scandinavian countries and Canada.

The total contributions do not include another 43.8 million dollars in uncommitted pledges towards the appeal, according to the UN data.

Although the aid is meant to run over six months, a World Food Programme official estimated that about 60 percent of funding was necessary to be able to pre-position enough food stocks in the region to cope with winter.

The appeal for funding, first launched on October 11, covers operations by UN agencies, as well as some other independent charities such as Save the Children, the International Rescue Corps (IRC) and World Vision, over six months.

However, several dozen other agencies, including the Red Cross and Red Crescent are active in the area struck by the earthquake and have separate appeals or funding sources.

The UN tally does not account for some aid in kind such as the NATO airlift flying essential supplies to Pakistan.

Pakistan is also receiving direct bilateral offers from other governments.

An estimated 1.3 million dollars has been promised or donated for Pakistan through various channels, either for short-term relief or long term reconstruction.

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