KABUL, an official said on Monday. Hafizullah Miakhel, spokesman for the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) told Pajhwok Afghan News officials from Pakistan, UNHCR and Afghanistan would take part in the meeting. Refugees’ Minister Syed Hussain Alami Balkhi,heading…
More than 40 houses, vacated by Afghan citizens, have been razed by the local administration in various areas of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber tribal region, an official said. Afghan refugees had left the houses in Khan Kalai (village) after…
More than 8,000 undocumented Afghan citizens have been arrested in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar over the past six months, police say. Based on growing complaints of street crimes, robberies, target killings, mobile-snatching and car-lifting, the arrests were…
The international community is not helping the Afghan living in Pakistan the way it is supporting refugees in Turkey, a Pakistani minister claimed on Friday. Minister for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) Abdul Qadir Baloch said: “The world…
Three dozen Afghan citizens were detained in separate search operations in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday, officials said. A heavy police contingent conducted a search operation in the posh neighbourhood of Hayatabad, detaining…
Top Pakistani officials met in Islamabad on Thursday to formulate modalities for the repatriation of Afghan refugees to their motherland, the Foreign Office said. Co-chaired by the adviser on foreign affairs and the minister for states and frontier…
Now is the time for the repatriation of Afghan refugees to their homeland, as the Pakistan government is seriously mulling over the issue, a minister has said. Pakistan has been hosting for decades the refugees who should be…
KABUL Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has extended Afghan refugees’ stay for another six months, the Afghan ambassador said on Wednesday. Dr. Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, also special representative of President Ashraf Ghani to Pakistan, said the decision to extend the stay…
KABUL. Concluding his first tri-nation visit to Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, Grandi announced to double the existing individual assistance package for Afghan returnees from an average of $200 to $400 per person. A statement from UNHCR office in Islamabad said…
More than 2,000 Afghan refugees have been detained in Peshawar during operations against illegal settlers, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) a news report said on Tuesday. The provincial government has set the June 30 deadline for Afghan citizens to get…
KABUL risked becoming a “forgotten” crisis. UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi, who visited a repatriation centre outside Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, called on the international community to invest more funds to help the…
During the past two week, 1,200 Afghan citizens living unlawfully in the capital of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have been arrested. The 1,200 illegal Afghans were detained in different parts of Peshawar over a period of two…
KABUL’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. SSP Peshawar Abbas Majid Marwat was quoted as saying by Geo TV that they had arrested 340 Afghan refugees during the past three days. Marwat said the refugees detained lacked legal stay documents and they were…
The UN refugee agency has commended the Iranian government’s efforts for educating the Afghan children living in the neighbouring country. UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner George Okoth-Obbo also thanked Tehran for providing medical insurance for Afghan refugees. The Islamic…
Dozens of Afghan citizens have been detained outlaws during search operations in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said. At least 20 Afghan nationals having no valid documents were arrested in Charsadda district on Wednesday, the town’s police…
KABUL Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal on Tuesday said he was aware of harassment of the Afghan refugees in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Also President Ashraf Ghani’s special representative for Pakistan, Zakhilwal wrote on his Facebook page that he had seriously…
Pakistanhas deported 188 Afghan citizens via the Torkham border crossing in the tribal region of Khyber, a news report said on Tuesday. The Afghans,who had been detained from various parts of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for staying in…
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has asked the federal government to prepare a roadmap for the early repatriation of Afghan refugees living in his province. On his return from Islamabad, where he held talks with higher-ups on…
The government said on Friday it would have a meeting with ambassadors of European counties in Kabul in the near future on resolving problems of Afghan refugees. Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani and Refugee and Repatriation Affairs Minister Syed…
KABUL could expect to stay in the country and the applicants would be judged on a case-by-case basis. German officials argue that Afghanistan is not universally unsafe, so not all migrants should be granted asylum. In trail through the Balkans,…
As many as 3.9 million Afghan refugees have been voluntarily repatriated to their country from Pakistan over the last 13 years. About 55,604 individual registered Afghan refugees were repatriated until mid-October this year, the Ministry of States and…
KABUL and "tens of thousands" from the Balkans will be sent back. More migrants are now coming to Europe from Afghanistan than any country other than Syria, a situation what de Maiziere deemed "unacceptable." Among them, he noted, are many…
KABUL or upper house of parliament on Tuesday asked Germany to revise its plan to start deporting Afghan refugees. Earlier, German media reported that Afghan refugees whose asylum seeking applications have been rejected would be sent back home. Angela Merkel's…
Refugee and Repatriation Minister Syed Hussain Alami Balkhi has called on European countries to prevent discriminatory against Afghan refugees. Balkhi, who participated in a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept 16,…
