KABUL): Nearly 9,000 homecoming families would be extended “all basic facilities of life” as part of the New Kabul City project, an ambitious public-private joint venture to construct a metropolis 1.5 times larger than the current city of Kabul. The…
KABUL): Afghan refugees in New Delhi are unwilling to return to their homeland, fearing escalating violence after the 2014 withdrawal of foreign troops, a media report said on Sunday. In the wake of the Soviet invasion in 1979, most of…
KABUL has sought generous international support for long-term socio-economic development and capacity-building programmes to rehabilitate returning refugees. Some of the returnees, seeking a prosperous future, faced only despair to their homeland, Afghanistan's Ambassador Zahir Tanin told the UN General Assembly's…
KABUL): An Independent Media Consortium (IMC) investigation reveals serious administrative corruption in the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations (MoRR). Findings by the IMC also implicate Refugees and Repatriation Minister Dr Jamaher Anwary. The minister got UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency,…
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 had their visas expired on Sept 6. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said no…
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 crack down on miscreants. The massive operation involving police and Rangers personnel that began on…
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 from neighbouring countries. In this regard, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between IDLG…
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 on Friday. All registered Afghans will automatically lose their refugee status on June 30 when…
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 the promises it held out to them before the return. Adam Khan, a returnee, told…
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 linked the three-day suspension to Pakistan’s parliamentary elections, saying the process would resume on May…
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 Friday after a deadly bomb attack killed 10 people dead, including an aid worker, and…
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 to them during a peaceful protest in Jalalabad. PAJHWOK/Obaidullah Hussam and Babrak Amrizada
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 Sunday. Each family received four bags of coal, a heater, two blankets, warm clothes, shoes,…
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, the ministry said it has taken the issue of expelling Afghan refugees from Pakistan seriously.…
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 a planned repatriation of Afghan refugees to their homeland in May. A month ago, officials…
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 keeping in view the deteriorating security situation in Peshawar city, the provincial capital, said Peshawar…
ISLAMABAD (PAN has decided to expel all illegal Afghan refugees until the end of 2012, an official said on Sunday. Pakistani federal minister for SAFRON, Eng. Shaukatullah Khan, told an Afghan delegation visiting the Punjab province, the Pakistani Cabinet had…
JALALABAD (PAN province were given similar assistance, officials said. In Nangarhar, the aid was distributed with financial support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the provincial refugee department to families returning from Pakistan to three districts.…
KABUL): Seventy-seven Afghan citizens have been arrested for entering Indonesia illegally, a media report said on Tuesday. The arrests took place near Jakarta on Sunday, the Antara news agency reported, saying police had turned the detainees over to the Karawang…
KABUL): The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation Affairs on Saturday rejected reports that Iran had given a three-month ultimatum to 900,000 registered Afghan refugees to leave the neighbouring country. An Iranian news agency, quoting unnamed officials, reported last week that…
KABUL): The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation on Tuesday said it was ready to facilitate the return of 900,000 Afghan refugees being expelled by the Iranian authorities. The Iranian government has set a three-month deadline for all illegal Afghan refugees…
QUETTA (PAN): Pakistani police have arrested 80 Afghans for illegally entering the Chaman border area in southwestern Balochistan province, officials said on Friday. Local police officials said most of the detainees, residents of southern Afghanistan without legal travel documents. The…
