Tag: Afghan refugees

Despite Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) decision to regularise contractual employees, 300 contractual employees, working with Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees (CAR) for the last two...

PESHAWAR: Afghan elders residing in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have called upon Pakistani authorities to extend their stay and suggested a resolution of...

In a bid to convince Pakistani authorities to allow them to enter their motherland, hundreds of Afghans—stranded due to the sealing of Pak-Afghan border...

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Saturday that terrorists involved in Lahore and Peshawar blasts have been identified, reported a private TV channel. “Afghan...

United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has commended Pakistan’s hospitality in hosting millions of Afghan refugees for decades, an Afghan media source reported...

More than 9,400 undocumented Afghans have returned home from Iran and Pakistan in the first week of 2017, raising concerns over how the war-torn...

Islamabad police along with sensitive agencies carried out a search operation in Barakahu area of the capital in the wee hours of Saturday. According to details, 23...

  KARACHI STAFF REPORT Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, said that Sindh had been host to registered and unregistered Afghan refugees for the past 37...

Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations (MoRR) says that the number of Afghan refugees who have returned from Pakistan and Iran since the start...

  The United Nations on Sunday appealed for $152 million to provide shelter, sanitation and food for a huge influx of refugees returning to Afghanistan...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) government has reaffirmed its commitment to provide free education and health facilities to Afghan refugees and said that these facilities were...

More than 350,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their war-torn homeland from Pakistan this year, UN data show, with the torrent of people crossing...

Pakistan officially hosts the third largest refugee population in the world after Jordan and Turkey, sheltering some 1.4 million registered Afghans and, according to...

For Samihullah, a tailor from a family of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the first indication that it might be time to leave the country...

Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday opposed the “forced repatriation” of Afghan refugees residing in Pakistan saying “the move is likely...

Speaker Asad Qaiser says govt will convene a meeting of parliamentary leaders, officials to prepare a strategy to handle issue in a better manner The...

Provincial Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan termed Quetta blast a failure of intelligence agencies and demanded to chalk out a...