KABUL, Iran and other countries last week, a website reported. From June 10 to 16, 14 refugees returned from Pakistan, 18 from Iran and six individuals from other countries, according to the ReliefWeb. Since the start of the current year,…
KABUL last week through Torkham and Spin Boldak border crossings, officials say. Border monitoring teams of the Directorate of Refugees and Repatriation (DoRR) say 271 Afghans returned home voluntarily while 15 were deported. The number of returnees shows a 66…
The Afghan consulate general in Istanbul, on Monday scorned Amnesty International’s report regarding the forced deportation of refugees from Turkey. Zakaria Barakzai, the Afghan consul general in Istanbul, Anadulo -- the state-run Turkish news agency -- the Afghan…
Twenty-one Afghan refugees have injured in a road accident in neighboring Iran two days ago, officials in southwestern Nimroz province said on Sunday. Haji Gul Safi, Nimroz refugee and repatriation director, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 10 of…
Pakistan, encouraging voluntary repatriation, has promised Afghan refugees will not be forced into leaving in the country The legal stay of around 1.4 million documented refugees in Pakistan will expire on March 31, with a new extension in…
Pakistan has decided to speed up the repatriation of Afghan refugees in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. At a meeting chaired by the prime minister in Islamabad late on Tuesday, the federal cabinet said…
Pakistan has approached global donors for funding to enhance the repatriation grant for Afghan refugees, the state-run news agency has reported. In an attempt to accelerate the voluntary return of Afghan refugees, Islamabad intends to double the grant…
Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa says the repatriation of Afghan refugees is the key to eradication of terrorism from the region. Pakistani Taliban fighters regularly used the concentration of nearly 2.7 million Afghan refugees to recruit,…
Pakistan has repeatedly told the United States there is no room for “do more” in the war on terrorism, says Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. The ongoing conflict in neighbouring Afghanistan could be resolved through dialogue, the prime…
The government of Pakistan has ruled out another extension for registered refugees to stay in the country, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. “There will be no extension after January 31 and they will have to go to their…
KABUL through negotiations and diplomatic channels to revisit its decision on Afghan refugees’ stay in that country. About a week back, the Pakistani government extended for only a month the stay of registered Afghan refugees, who lost their legal stay…
The federal government has agreed to extend for a month proof of registration (POR) cards for Afghan refugees living in Pakistan. The decision came at a federal cabinet meeting on Wednesday -- days after the US blamed Pakistan…
Civil society. Beyond Boundaries asked the government to let Afghan refugees stay in Pakistan until December 31 and thereby end the uncertainty about their fate. Any delay in extension would only expose the refugees to avoidable excesses and…
The stay of Afghan refugees in Pakistan may be extended for a period of six months, the state-run news agency reported on Thursday. The stay for Afghan refugees in Pakistan will expire on December 31, but UNHCR…
KABUL, which has allowed only documented refugees to stay. Afghanistan’s Deputy Ambassador to Pakistan, in an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, said on Thursday that Islamabad had kicked off the registration process for 700,000 illegal Afghans in August. He…
KABUL has agreed to extending the stay of Afghan refugees by one more year in the country, a Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) official said on Wednesday. Hafiz Ahmad Miakhel, media advisor to MoRR, in an exclusive interview with…
KABUL has agreed to extending the stay of Afghan refugees by one more year in the country, a Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) official said on Wednesday. Hafiz Ahmad Miakhel, media advisor to MoRR, in an exclusive interview with…
Voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees to their homeland has cosiderably slowed dow as undocumented migrants stream to registration centres across Pakistan. Around 25,000 illegal Afghans have been registered by Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) over the…
KABUL, with another seven hundred thousand illegal refugees to be documented in the coming six months, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Monday. The registration process of illegal Afghan migrants kicked off in Pakistan on August 16.…
In the wake of an attack on the German embassy in Kabul, Berlin has decided to halt deportation of Afghan refugees, the minister of refugees says. Under the German interior ministry’s decision, only those Afghans involved in criminal…
Refugee and Repatriation Minister Syed Hussain Alami Balkhi on Saturday said an honorable and dignified return of Afghan refugees from their host countries was a top priority of the ministry. Balkhi, who met representatives of Afghan refugees…
KABUL is expected to legalise the stay of 700,000 Afghan refugees by launching their registration process in the next few weeks, officials said on Thursday.. Hafizullah Miakhel, media advisor to the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR), told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL during the past one week. A MoRR statement received by Pajhwok Afghan News said some of the refugees had voluntarily returned and others were forced into leaving the host country. They returned between April 28 and May 5, with…
“Iran considers non-Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) and cards issued to Afghan refugees and students living there as invalid.” This was told to CEO Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Saturday by a number of Afghan refugees’ representatives, a statement from…
