KABUL (Pajhwok): The Pul-i-Charkhi Industrialists Association (PIA) have pledged to provide work opportunities for professional, technical and qualified people who had recently returned from Pakistan.
The Pul-i-Charkhi Industrialists Union of Kabul has held a meeting to express their support from the evicted refugees from Pakistan.
PIA General Director Abdul Jabbar Safi said told the gathering that people and the government had shared responsibility to support the newly returnees.
He said the forcible eviction of the refuges of Afghanistan from Pakistan promoted hatred between the people of the two countries; the deportation of refugees should be done through a proper mechanism gradually.
Safi clarified, the aim the industrialists of Kabul, Herat, Nangarhar and Kandahar province are to employ at least a thousand workers in each of the 4,000 factories which can create 40,000 employment opportunities in total.
He urged the government to create a mechanism for the employment of qualified, skilled and other persons in the factories.
Safi said since 2016, Afghan businessmen created about 130 factories in Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi and Islamabad cities. He asked Afghan government to talk to the government of Pakistan regarding the transfer of Afghans factories machineries from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
Mohammad Bashir Bashir, executive head of the Kabul Industrialists Association, said the industrialists were the backbone for he country’s economic development.
The industrialists of the country must support the repatriates from Pakistan by providing them employment opportunities.
There were 18 industrial sectors and each sector has the capacity to employ 100 returnees, he said.
According to the facts and figures from the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation that over 300,000 refugees returned to the country through Torkham and Spin Boldak crossings. The forcible eviction of Afghan refugees from Pakistan has drawn both national and international reactions.
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