Tag: Unhcr

UNHCR expresses solidarity with some 68.5 million displaced people ISLAMABAD: The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) and GiZ...

GENEVA: The UN refugee agency UNHCR hopes the Lebanese foreign ministry will quickly reverse a decision to freeze residency applications the agency has submitted...

ISLAMABAD: The launch ceremony of different wings of human development under the auspices of World Humanity Commission (WHC) and Global Learning Trust (GLT) was held...

BANGKOK: Ninety-three refugees from Myanmar who have been living in camps in Thailand have gone home, the second such return since 2016, the UN...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been declared the largest country to provide shelter to refugees in the world by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees...

PESHAWAR: A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is to be signed between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer...

DHAKA: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Monday it was concerned about the safety of 56 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar on...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday launched a pilot programme to help provide...

Andrabi says Pakistan to continue its moral, political support to Kashmiri people GENEVA: Pakistan has raised the issue of India’s grave human rights violations in...

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: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government took exception of the discreet inclusion of pro-India and anti-Pakistan material in the textbooks of Afghan refugee schools in the...

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

NEW DELHI: Alleged Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has petitioned the United Nations to get his name struck off...

GENEVA: At least three million people worldwide are stateless, most of them minorities, a status that deprives them of an identity, rights, and often...

LAHORE: A contempt of court petition against the federal government for deporting a Turkish couple— which had gone ‘missing’ late last month—was accepted by...

LAHORE: The Pak-Turk Parents Association on Wednesday demanded an immediate release of the former principal of Pak-Turk School Mesut Kacmaz, who, along with his...