Pakistan ? A U.S. general stressed Thursday that American helicopters and troops will help victims of South Asia’s earthquake for months to come, but the World Food Program warned that its own relief flights might have to be scaled back within days.

The U.N. agency said it was running out of money because donors have not given enough to meet the region’s desperate needs.

Survivors, meanwhile, prepared for dampened celebrations today of Islam’s biggest feast, the Eid al-Fitr, amid the rubble and sadness of communities shattered by the Oct. 8 quake. Some 80,000 people died and 3 million are homeless, mostly in Pakistan’s part of Kashmir.

During a visit to Muzaffarad, the commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan repeated American assurances that the U.S. helicopters and troops diverted from Afghanistan to quake relief would keep flying through the winter and beyond.

U.S. helicopters would resume relief flights today near Pakistan’s frontier with India after a halt that was ordered Tuesday when a U.S. chopper reported being fired on with a rocket-propelled grenade, U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Nida Emmons said.

The CH-47 cargo helicopter was not hit, and the Pakistani military said the pilot may have mistaken road-clearing explosions for an attack.