Refugees

KABUL): Iranian authorities were on Monday asked by an influential human rights organisation to shelve plans of expelling hundreds of thousands of Afghans after they

KARACHI (PAN): Pakistani security forces have detained hundreds of Afghan refugees from various areas of Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province, during a latest

KABUL): The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) and the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) on Saturday promised land plots for the Afghans returning

KABUL): The new Pakistani government may extend the stay of more than 1.6 million Afghan refugees living in the neighbouring country, a media report said

SHARAN (PAN to southeastern Paktika province years ago. The families say the government has extended them no assistance so far and has failed to honour

ISLAMABAD (PAN has been suspended for a short period of time, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday. The UN agency

KABUL to beef up security around the largest camp for internally-displaced people in the country’s northwestern age Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. UNHCR issued the call on

JALALABAD (PAN): Returnees from neighbouring Pakistan during a protest in eastern Nangarhar province. Hundreds of repatriate families asked the Afghan government to give their rights

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Winter assistance, including food items, was delivered to nearly 2,000 families in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital city of northern Balkh province, officials said on

KABUL to expel unregistered Afghan refugees living in the country and asked the neighboring government to take a softer position. In a statement on Sunday,

ISLAMABAD (PAN): An Afghan official delegation is due to arrive in Islamabad on Monday for a three-day visit to hold talks with Pakistani officials over

ISLAMABAD (PAN’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province set one month deadline for illegal Afghan refugees to leave, an official said on Wednesday. The decision was taken