The Pakistan government has agreed to extend the proof of registration (PoR) cards for Afghan refugees till the end of 2017, the UN refugee agency has said. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative Indrika Ratwatte said…
KABUL has yet to start registering undocumented Afghan nationals as outlined in the 20-point National Action Plan (NAP), devised to deal with terrorism in the aftermath of Army Public School tragedy, media reports. The Dawn.com reported that over one million…
The 19th trilateral summit addressing the grievances of Afghan refugees in Iran was held on Monday in Kabul at a time when over two million Afghan refugees still lacked legal documents in the neighboring country. The Ministry of…
The dead bodies of five Afghan refugees who had lost their lives in a traffic accident in Iran, had been shifted to Nimroz province, residents said on Saturday. Mohammad Dawood, a resident of Zaranj, said his cousin was…
Evicted families living in slums around Islamabad are not Afghans, as reported earlier, an official said on Saturday. Several TV channels showed footage of Pakistani police beating and evicting residents from the slums situated on the outskirts of…
