Tag: Afghan refugees

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to raise the issue of Afghan refugees participating in the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) with the United Nations High Commissioner for...

UNITED NATIONS: About 58,000 Afghan refugees voluntarily returned to their country last year after decades aboard only to be met with protection risks and...

Menikdiwela, Dr Sultan sign MoU in Peshawar PESHAWAR: The United Nations refugees agency has procured high-tech machines worth Rs 710 million ($6.2 million) for the...

PESHAWAR: About eight hundred Afghan refugees have returned to their motherland from Pakistan during the last two weeks. A United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...

ISLAMABAD: Frontier Regions State Minister Lt Gen (R) Abdul Qadir Baloch on Friday said that no frontier areas of Balochistan fall under the SAFRON Ministry’s...

SAFRON minister says refugees have nothing to do with security situation ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not force some two million Afghan refugees in the country to leave but...

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday rejected the recommendation of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) for an upward revision of the power tariff...

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet Wednesday approved an extension in the Proof of Registration (PoR) cards for Afghan refugees for two more months, thereby allowing...

Nancy says US committed to support Pakistan on Afghan refugees ISLAMABAD: US Deputy Secretary of State Nancy Izzo Jackson, who is a career member of...

Most refugees hesitant to return Afghanistan due to insecurity, lack of economic prospects Afghans believe returning to Afghanistan will be like a ‘new...

  ISLAMABAD: Majority of policy analysts at a roundtable held at Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) rejected the idea of forceful repatriation of millions of...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government took notice on Tuesday of the alleged anti-Pakistan curriculum being taught under a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...

Imran's anti-parliament tirade is an attempt to evade defeat in general elections Responding to the US demand of 'do more', Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal...

MUSCAT: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has called US President Donald Trump’s remarks on terrorism as unfair. Trump had accused Pakistan of giving safe havens to terrorists. Iqbal...

Afghan diplomat says over one million refugees cannot be sent back home in one month time Elders reject govt’s Jan 31 deadline; demand...

ISLAMABAD: The process of registration of unregistered Afghan refugees has been suspended for two weeks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) over security concerns in Muharram-ul-Haram. According...

  ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly (NA) on Wednesday called on the government to consider suspending cooperation with the United States and to draw a blueprint for...