Representatives of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday urged the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan to resolve problems the refugees faced. The representatives of various Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan addressed a press conference…
Afghan citizens living in Pakistan have been asked to leave the area within a week, officials said on Monday. The political authorities had also launched a survey in villages close to the border to collect information about the…
KABUL with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor. A statement from the Afghan consulate said Dr. Abdullah Wahid Poyan met Iqbal Zafar Jhagra at the governor’s house on Friday. Matters of mutual interest, with particular reference to Afghan refugees in the northwestern…
KABUL and assured President Ghani the agency’s timely assistance delivery to refugees. A statement from the Presidential Palace said President Ashraf Ghani met with UNHCR Commissioner-General Fillipo Grandi at the palace and thanked him for visiting Afghanistan on the occasion…
KABUL’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa officials have agreed their security forces would not harass Afghan refugees following terrorist attacks in the neighbouring country in future. The agreement came during a meeting between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Parwaiz Khattak and the Afghan ambassador…
Afghan refugee families returning from Pakistan in southeastern Khost province, an official said. IOM official in Khost Abdul Qayum Sharafat told Pajhwok Afghan News the aid was distributed to refugees who had been illegally living in North…
French police have detained two Afghan refugees for the attempted rape of a passenger on a Paris train, a US-based news site reported on Friday. Aged 19 and 45 years, the refugees sought political asylum in France, claiming…
A 12,000-acre of land has been allocated in southern Kandahar province for a township to provide land plots to Afghan refugee families returning from neighbouring countries and internally displaced persons, a minister said on Thursday. Refugee and…
The German ambassador in Kabul on Tuesday said up to 83,000 Afghans migrated to Germany since the beginning of 2015 and 43 percent of them have been granted asylum in the European country. During a meeting with Afghan…
A dozen Taliban insurgents have been killed during ongoing operations in Marjah and Nad Ali districts of southern Helmand province, officials claimed on Saturday. The operations were launched on Friday in the two districts, with security forces killing…
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation on Wednesday urged the international community to grant asylum to all refugees arriving in Europe without discrimination. According to the ministry, due to instability in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, more than 500,000…
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has directed the ministries concerned to complete their homework for any unannounced repatriation of Afghan refugees. Chairing the 2nd meeting of high commission on refugees’ affairs here on Tuesday, the president directed authorities to…
KABUL witnessed a three-fold increase during the first six months of the year. Syed Hussain Alami Balkhi told reporters in Kabul about 17,000 refugees had returned from Iran and Pakistan during the same period in 2014 against 46,000 this year.…
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation Affairs on Wednesday said Iran had extended temporary visas for 450,000 Afghan refugees there by another four months. A statement from the ministry said the development came after an Afghan delegation visited…
KABUL’s Waziristan tribal region in southeastern Paktika province. Thousands of families migrated to Khost and Paktika provinces after the Pakistani army launched "Operation Zarb-i-Azab" last year in Waziristan, a semi autonomous tribal area near the Afghanistan border. Local residents warmly…
A Saudi Arabia charity organization has disbursed edible and other assistance among 2,800 displaced Waziristani families in southeastern Khost province, advisor to refugees’ ministry, Hayatullah Sabaoon, said Thursday. Thousands of families displaced from Pakistani military operation in…
The decision to expel all Afghan refugees from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after a month is against previous commitments and efforts were on to resolve the issue through diplomatic channels, officials said on Sunday. The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation…
KABUL and Iran. Speaking at a gathering on International Refugees Day at the AIHRC Headquarters in Kabul, Mahmoodi said Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran had been deprived of basic human rights. He said a majority of the Afghans lived…
The government of Iran has extended work visas of 450 Afghan refugees for six more months, an official said on Saturday. A rehabilitation centre for people with disabilities was also being opened by Iran in Kabul, the first…
An estimated 5.7 million refugees returned to Afghanistan Bank said on Monday. “While an estimated 5.7 million refugees have returned to Afghanistan in the past decade (the largest refugee repatriation effort in the world), large numbers remain forcibly…
Up to 600 families have migrated from Pakistan’s tribal region of North Waziristan to southeastern Khost province, the governor said on Thursday. Abdul Jabbar Naeemi told reporters a camp was being set up on 2,000 acres of…
The Afghanistan Human Rights Commission on Thursday expressed concern over the deportation of more than 2,800 Afghan children into western Afghanistan from neighbouring Iran last year. Abdul Qadir Rahimi, the watchdog’s head in Herat, said they had…
Iran has extended work visas of 470 Afghan refugees staying in the neighbouring country, an official said on Sunday. Refugee and Repatriation Ministry spokesman, Amanullah Jawad, told Pajhwok Afghan News visas of the 470 Afghans had expired two…
KABUL): The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation on Wednesday said Riyadh had assured Kabul that illegal Afghan refugees and workers would not be forcibly expelled from the kingdom. In a statement, the ministry said an Afghan delegation that visited Saudi…
