Pakistan for the return of refugees to their homeland. Minister for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON), asked the UN refugee agency and other donor agencies to provide returning Afghans with necessary cash grants and other aid. At a…
Iran forcibly expelled more than 100,000 Afghans into western Herat province last solar year, local officials said on Sunday. Ahmad Javid Naadem, Herat’s refugees and repatriation director, told Pajhwok Afghan News in an interview that Iran started…
Pakistan considers allowing Afghan refugees entry on production of proof of registration cards, obviating the need for visas, Minister of State and Frontier Regions Abdul Qader Baloch says. Speaking to Afghan journalist here, Baloch said all political forces…
KABUL resumes today (Monday), with 16,000 having applied for returning home from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A 50 percent reduction -- from $400 to $200 -- under the UNHCR’s repatriation programme may discourage the voluntary return of documented refugees after a…
KABUL will resume on April 3. Duniya Aslam Khan, UNHCR spokesperson in Islamabad, in an email told Pajhwok Afghan News the repatriation and reintegration grant for registered Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan in 2017 will be USD 200. In light…
A senior leader of the Awami National Party (ANP), Afrasiab Khattak, has excoriated the government of Punjab for adopting policy of discrimination against Pashtuns and typecasting them in violation of all principles. In an interview published on Sunday,…
Dozens of Afghan citizens have been arrested in different parts of Pakistan as a nationwide crackdown on suspected terrorists continues, officials say. In Quetta, the capital southwestern Balochistan province, a militant was killed and 62 suspects were arrested…
Pakistan hopes the dignified return of Afghans to their homeland will go a long way in promoting durable peace and stability in their country and the region at large. The Foreign Office (FO) refuted a recent Human Rights…
The Pakistan government on Tuesday approved a draft repatriation and management policy for Afghan refugees living in the country. The policy was endorsed at a federal cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, according to the state-controlled…
KABUL next month on finding solution to problems Afghan refugees face there, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) office said Wednesday. A statement from the CEO office to Pajhwok Afghan News said CEO Abdullah Abdullah discussed execution of the trilateral meeting…
The government of Khyber Pakhton Khwa (KPK) government had exaggerated, lied and hid the fact over Afghan refugees’ involvement in criminal activities, a media report said on Sunday Contrary to the widespread notion of massive involvement of Afghan…
All Afghan refugees must be repatriated before a population census is held in southwestern Balochistan province, a Baloch nationalist party has said. At a meeting, the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) said it would not accept a census in…
With the onset of the harsh winter season, the United Nations has suspended the repatriation of Afghan refugees, but the prescheduled returns will proceed. The repatriation of refugees would resume from March 1, 2017, UNHCR spokesman Asif Shehzad…
KABUL and the United Nations, an official said on Wednesday. Pakistan extended, apparently for the last time, the deadline for Afghan refugees’ stay in the country until March, 2017. But the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has halted…
KABUL. The new centre in Azakhel area of Nowshera district, about 40 kilometres east of Peshawar, will enhance UNHCR capacity to facilitate the return of up to 10,000 refugees a day through the Torkham border crossing. A high-level delegation comprising…
The Awami National Party (ANP), a leading Pakhtun nationalist political entity, has called for an immediate end to the harassment of Afghan refugees in different parts of Pakistan. At a meeting of its Central General Council,chaired by Asfandyar…
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said Pakistan’s hospitality remains unchanged despite a sharp decline in international aid for Afghan refugees living in his country. Pakistan has been host to millions of Afghan refugees for the past four decades,…
Ten Afghan citizens have been detained during a search operation in Pakistan’s garrison city of Rawalpindi, police say. Police, Rangers and other security agencies conducted the search operation in different areas of Sabzi Mandi on Saturday. During the…
KABUL had accelerated compared to last year and so far more than 107,000 Afghans had returned to their country. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman in Pakistan, Dunya Aslam Khan, told Pajhwok Afghan News 107,200 Afghan refugees voluntarily…
KABUL in the past month, are in urgent need of assistance and only a few have received support so far, the Norwegian Refugee Council said on Sunday. “These people are falling between the cracks. There´s an urgent need for assistance,…
KABUL nationalist leader Asfandyar Wali Khan has said his party, Awami National Party, would oppose forcible return of Afghan refugees and condemned the harassment of Afghans at the hands of police. Addressing a party gathering commemorating a 1948 massacre of…
As part of an ongoing crackdown, more than 300 Afghan citizens have been rounded up for illegally staying in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police say. A Capital City Police Office (CCPO) source confided to Pajhwok Afghan News…
Seventy-four Afghan citizens have been arrested with arms and drugs during a fresh search operation in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, a police officer said on Saturday. Involving a large police contingent, the search operation was conducted in…
KABUL’s protracted refugee chapter to a close and putting an end to future displacement within and beyond the country. Representatives of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)on Tuesday underlined their commitment to empower Afghan refugees and to pro-actively…
