Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi on Wednesday arrived in eastern Nangarhar province to welcome and assist refugees returning from Pakistan. The captain distributed food to around 2,500 refugees and gave cash assistance to some children in their temporary settlement…
More than 7,000 Afghan refugees returned to the country from Iran and Pakistan yesterday, the Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Wednesday. MoRR wrote on its X handle about 677 families, comprising 5,505 individuals, returned to…
The Ministry of Transportation and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) on Saturday announced transferring more than 9,000 Afghan refugees to their respective provinces from Torkham and Spin Boldak crossings during the past two days.
Over 8,300 repatriates have been transferred from Torkham to their final destinations in the provinces, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Thursday. MoD on its Twitter handle wrote that The Logistics Brigade of the 201st Khalid Bin…
The leaders of some families who have returned from Pakistan had been arrested by Pakistani police and sent to jails, an official said on Sunday. They said kids or their relatives had to bear responsibility for these families…
Some Afghan deported refugees have asked authorities to speed up the registration and assistance process of refugees in Torkham. Local officials in Nangarhar acknowledged the problem and said the slow-paced of registration and assistance distribution process was due…
Afghan Skipper dedicated his side's seven-wicket win over Netherlands to the thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan who are facing the prospect of being deported back to Afghanistan.
Islamic Emirate supreme leader Sheikh Haibatullah Akhunzada has said painful stories are being heard about the sufferings of Afghan refugees in another country, something he called intolerable. “The refugees are arrested and imprisoned, this is not tolerable,” Akhunzada…
The Sindh government says it needs at least Rs2 billion for lodging thousands of undocumented foreigners, including Afghan nationals. The provincial administration, which has set up three holding centres in Sindh, the amount is needed to provide inmates…
The High Commission for addressing problems of the deported refugees has held its maiden meeting and made key decisions.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said a delegation will travel to Turkey for talks on addressing problems of Afghan refugees there.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has asked Islamabad to immediately reverse its decision on deporting undocumented refugees.
The United High Council of Afghan Refuges has urged the government of Pakistan to document unregistered Afghans.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) says more than 88,000 Afghans have returned to the country, with 34,000 deported by Iran and Pakistan. Abdul Latif Haqqani, spokesman for MoRR, told Pajhwok Afghan News 88,146 Afghan refugees returned…
More than 2,000 Afghan refugees returned from Iran on Wednesday and 663 of them were introduced to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for assistance, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) says. MoRR tweeted today (Thursday) that…
More than 2,500 Afghan refugees returned from Iran yesterday (Sunday), the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Thursday. The refugees numbering 2,588 arrived in the country via Islam Qala port in western Herat province, the ministry tweeted.…
More than 2,000 Afghan refugees returned from Iran yesterday (Tuesday), the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Wednesday. At least 2,778 Afghan refugees came back to the country via Islam Qala in western Herat province, the…
About 117 Afghan families, who lacked legal stay documents, returned from Pakistan via Torkham crossing point last week, officials in eastern Nangarhar province said on Saturday. According to officials, the returning families comprised nearly 650 individuals. Sidiqullah Quraishi,…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has launched a response plan to support 7.9 million people with 5.2 million Afghans, including refugees and their local hosts across the region. The Regional Refugee Response Plan for the Afghanistan Situation…
Nearly 2500 Afghan refugees returned to the country from Iran and Pakistan yesterday, tweeted the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation. The majority 2189 of the total 2,487 Afghan refugees returned from Iran via Islam Qala border in western…
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) says nearly 2,500 Afghan refugees returned from neighboring Iran during the past two days. The ministry tweeted that these refugees returned to the country via Islam Qala port in western Herat…
More than 10,000 Afghan refugees return from Iran and Turkey on a monthly basis, the Refugees and Repatriation Department of western Herat province said on Tuesday. Mawlawi Ezatullah, director of the department, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
A number of Afghan refugees, who recently returned from Iran, say they were mistreated by police and denied wages by employers in the neighboring country. Hadisa Rasouli, who traveled to Iran eight months ago with family and recently…
About 2,723 Afghan refugees returned from neighboring Iran during the past two days, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Monday. On its twitter page, the ministry said these Afghan refugees returned to the country through Nimroz’s…
