MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Nearly 4,000 families displaced from a number of insecure northern provinces have taken refuge in Balkh province during the current year, local officials said on Wednesday.
Balkh refugees’ department head, Abdul Saboor, told Pajhwok Afghan News on the sidelines of an IDPs related two-day workshop that the displaced families settled in different parts of Balkh belonged to troubled Faryab, Kunduz, Baghlan, Sar-i-Pul and Takhar provinces.
Over the past one month at least 500 families currently living on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif had been displaced from . . .
