As many as 250 Afghan refugees, who had been stranded in heavy snow and storms in the Khorasan Razavi province of Iran, have been rescued and sent to their homeland.
The bodies of two Afghan migrants have been recovered on the northern coast of France as police arrested six others, including Afghans, for investigations, reports said on Tuesday.
More than 16,000 families have returned to northern Baghlan province from neighbouring countries over the past three years and only 450 of these families have been provided with newly built homes.
Three townships are being built for returning refugees in southern Kandahar province, where work is already underway on one housing complex in Daman district.
Freed from jails in Pakistan, 42 Afghan nationals arrived to their homeland via Torkham crossing, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Saturday.
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Two UN agencies have expressed their concerns at Pakistan’s new plan to relocate Afghan nationals from Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A flurry of .
Pakistan plans to quietly move legal Afghan refugees out of Islamabad and Rawalpindi before sending them back to their country, a media report said on Tuesday.
Over 210 families who recently returned to the country have been handed over permanent residence in the provincial capital Mehtarlam and two districts of eastern Laghman province, an official said on Monday.
Pakistani authorities handed over 141 Afghan citizens, including women and children to the Afghan side at the Torkham crossing in eastern Nangarhar province.
More than 6,500 acres of land has been allocated to build five townships for returning refugees in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Saturday.
The German parliament has rejected a proposal to tighten immigration laws proposed by two conservative Christian Democratic (CDU) and Christian Social (CSU) parties.
