The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) on Monday said more than 10,000 Afghan refugee families returned to their home country from neighboring countries during the past one week. A MoRR statement received by Pajhwok Afghan News said…
Families, who fled violence in their home province of Helmand and migrated to southern Kandahar province, say they are leading a life full of miseries and no one has assisted them so far. Members of the displaced families…
KABUL, Iran and Gulf countries, an official said on Monday. To this effect, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) and Population Registration Department (PRD)…
Tehran on Sunday expressed its readiness to work together with Kabul on legalising the status of Afghans living in the neighbouring country and offered all possible support to the war-torn nation.. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced…
Refugees families, who returned from neighbouring countries in recent years, say the government has issued them ownership documents of land plots, but they are yet to possess the plots and other promised facilities. A large number of Afghan…
Afghan refugees living in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday said the ‘refugee card’ had no benefit except their identification. The refugees, who had gathered in Kohat town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, urged the Pakistani government to provide…
Refugees from the North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan are preventing a polio vaccination campaign in southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Saturday. Dr. Mohammad Noor, director of polio vaccine campaign in Paktika, told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
KABUL on Wednesday signed extension into the stay of Afghan refugees until the end of this year, underlining importance of moving expeditiously to support the needs of the refugees. Representatives from Pakistan, Afghanistan and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) met…
A large family that recently returned from Pakistan after four decades says they are happy in their own country despite struggling with numerous problems including a lack of shelter. The family has erected 10 tents inside a long…
KABUL on Tuesday decided to extend legal stay right of Afghan nationals in the country from March 31 to the end of this year. The decision came at a federal cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in…
Deputy refugee and repatriation minister Ahad Wali Hakimi on Sunday identified the lack of shelter as main problem being faced by recently returned families. Addressing a gathering marking the Word Refugee Day in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern…
Eighty percent of refugee families who recently returned from Pakistan have been settled in eastern Nangarhar province, officials say, fearing humanitarian crisis after the influx. Residents, officials and provincial council members say the arrival of a huge number…
KABUL and Iran, officials said on Thursday. Refugee Ministry official Hafiz Ahmad Miakhel told Pajhwok Afghan News the American assistance would be reaching returning and displaced families. He said the Afghan Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation had welcomed the American…
Nearly 12,000 repatriated refugees will get land plots under a residential scheme launched on Thursday in eastern Laghman province. The Laghman provincial press department in a statement said the township was being constructed in the center of…
The refugees from Pakistan’s Waziristan region in southeastern Paktika province on Saturday demand aid as they feared hardships with the advent of winter. Recently thousands of families have arrived in Paktika from Pakistan. A leader of the Waziristani…
More than a dozen people were injured after local residents and returning refugees clashed in Dasht Kala district of northeastern Takhar province on Saturday. Abdullah, 60, one of the returnees in the area, told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
A number of internally displaced families and those migrating from Pakistan’s Waziristan tribal area to southeastern Paktika province say they are in dire need of assistance. The families said they should be provided with aid before winter, however…
Hinting at continued repatriation, the United Nations has said that more than 350,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland from Pakistan this year. In October, UNHCR said the number of documented Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan had…
KABUL’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, say unregistered Afghans would not be forcibly expelled from the neighbouring country. It comes a day after Pakistani media reported that a crackdown was being launched against illegal Afghan refugees in the northwestern province on Sunday.…
Afghan refugee families who recently returned from neighboring Pakistan to northern Baghlan province complain about absence of residential facilities, joblessness, poor living conditions and no attention on the part of the government towards these issues. About 1000 families…
The Ministry of Refugees and Reparation on Tuesday said $5 million has been set aside for Afghan refugees returning to the country and another 100 million afs has been suggested for approval. Nangarhar governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyani…
President Ashraf Ghani has alleged Pakistan. According to a senior government official, as many as 6,500 refugees return to Afghanistan from Pakistan and Iran on a daily basis and the numbers may exceed one million at the end…
Afghan refugee families who have returned to southeastern Khost province from Pakistan’s Waziristan region say they want the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to treat them like other Afghan refugees. The families, who fled the…
KABUL. During an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, he said tension between Kabul and Islamabad could not be reduced until the later brought changes to its policy toward toward the war-devastated country.. He claimed Pakistan suffered and paid a high price for…
