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Deported from Pakistan, refugees seek urgent assistance

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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Refugees returning via Torkham crossing into eastern Nangarhar province say Pakistan forcibly deported them and currently they face a host of problems and need urgent support.

The newly arrived families say they have no money to pay house rent and they have sold all their household goods and if the government and the UN did not support them, winter can prove life-threatening.

Officials say since the crackdown on Afghan refugees in Pakistan, about 20,000 families have returned to the country through Torkham crossing.

Earlier, the government of Pakistan had set Nov 1 a deadline for undocumented . . .

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