Tag: Afghan refugees

-‘Dignified repatriation’ of refugees is linked to peace in Afghanistan ISLAMABAD: Donor countries and agencies on Friday vowed full support to the cause of honourable...

MANSEHRA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administration on Tuesday served a final notice the Afghan refugees living in Manshera to vacate the camp by June 30 in...

Hafeez Ullah Haideri, 47, has been living in Pakistan over the past four decades as an Afghan refugee. He has a vague image of...

ISLAMABAD: The representatives of Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan along with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency called on the international community to support refugee-hosting countries and...

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in a meeting with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative Ruven Menikwela decided to...

ISLAMABAD: The UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday it has resumed voluntary repatriation programme for registered Afghan refugees from Pakistan on Friday after...

KARACHI The State Bank of Pakistan has issued a circular advising banks/development finance institutions (DFIs) that they may accept PoR Card issued by National Database...

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday issued instructions for registered Afghan refugees living in Pakistan to be allowed to open bank accounts. "From now onwards...

PESHAWAR: Shahzad Alam has proposed marriage to several women and been rejected each time for the same reason, he says: their discovery that he...

--FO spokesman says Afghan nationals are issued visas free of cost   ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal on Wednesday said that Pakistan’s visa policy...

ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, Aamer Mehmood Kiani on Friday has pledged to support all residents of the country, including Afghan...

ISLAMABAD: The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will suspend Afghan refugees repatriations operation from  December 1, 2018, to February 28,...

KOHAT: Kohat Police on Sunday arrested three facilitators of the proclaimed offenders (POs), 12 Afghan refugees staying illegally in Pakistan and 50 other suspects, with...

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has decided to suspend the repatriation process of Afghan refugees in Pakistan for around four...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday held a second meeting of the refugee working group (RWG) under the Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and...

-Want to help KP in multiple sectors including local government, health, education, tourism, agriculture and industrialisation, says US ambassador. -Task force working for tourism boom in...

ISLAMABAD: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Pakistan Representative Ruven Menikdiwela called on Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Khan Afridi in Islamabad on...