Tag: Refugees
Bangladesh PM seeks help for Rohingya crisis as exodus tops 400,000
DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina headed for the UN General Assembly on Saturday to plead for global help coping with the Rohingya crisis, as...
Rohingya Muslim refugees forced to scramble for aid in Bangladesh
KUTUPALONG: Every day Sunabhan joins thousands of other Rohingya refugees by the roadside near her settlement in southern Bangladesh waiting for aid trucks to...
Pakistan world’s largest host of refugees: UNHCR report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan continued to host the largest number of refugees in the world (1.45 million), nearly all from Afghanistan, said a report of the United...
Pakistan, EU to reiterate to elevate partnership under new strategic engagement...
Pakistan and European Union have reiterated to further elevate their mutually beneficial partnership under the new Strategic Engagement Plan. The understanding came during 7th...
MRC to launch legal migration awareness campaign
PP
Migrant Resource Centre (MRC), working under Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, would launch a massive media campaign to educate audience about...
3.7 mn school-aged refugee children have no school to go: UN
Fewer than half of the world´s some six million refugee children are in school, making them five times less likely to get an education...
Afghan consul general blames Pakistan for harassment of refugees
More than 7,000 Afghan refugees have been arrested by Pakistani police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province over the past week, Afghan Consul General Abdullah Waheed...
Afghan refugees found to be occupying key govt posts
Intelligence agencies have busted an alleged Afghan refugee serving as a doctor in Allied Hospital while investigations are underway to identify other impostors appointed...
Khyber officials tell Afghan refugees to pack up and leave or...
Security forces and civil administration officials on Wednesday asked the Khyber Agency tribesmen to expel Afghan citizens from their areas, warning that Afghan refugees...
Pope Francis urges compassion for refugees in Easter address
Pope Francis spoke out on Sunday against the “rejection” of refugees by many Europeans.
The pontiff used his Easter address to urge people to offer...
One million Pakistanis to return home as military ends operations
Aid shortfalls, ruined infrastructure and the lingering risk of attack are undermining efforts to return around one million Pakistanis to homes they fled after...
Migrants blocked from entering Europe through Balkan trail
The Balkan trail from Greece to northern Europe used by floods of migrants was blocked on Wednesday after a string of nations slammed shut...
German mob tells refugees to ‘go home’
A new video has surfaced on the internet which shows a group of men blocking a bus full of refugees in the town of...
Merkel says refugees must return home once war is over
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees...
Wary of culture clash, Germans teach refugees their rules
First impressions are important in any culture, and Germany is keen that even refugees from conservative Muslim countries get it right.
“Men and women say...
Charities warn of ‘desperate’ plight of refugees in snow
Leading children’s charities warned Tuesday that young refugees crossing through the Balkans were at serious risk from the bitterly cold weather and lacking adequate...
Germany warns of legal action against EU countries refusing refugees
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier threatened legal action on Saturday against EU countries that refused to accept refugees under the bloc’s quota programme.
Steinmeier said...
