Tag: Unhcr
Pakistan highlights plight of Rohingyas at UNHCR
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for State and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) Lt Gen (retired) Abdul Qadir Baloch on Tuesday highlighted the issue of five million Rohingya...
HRCP calls for immediate release of Turkish family
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for the immediate release of Kacmaz family, ex-director of Pak-Turk school, including two young daughters,...
UNHCR alarmed at violence against Rohingya in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: The United Nations on Wednesday raised concern for the safety of Rohingya Muslim asylum seekers in Sri Lanka after Buddhist monks and hardline...
UNHCR Voluntary Repatriation Centres to remain closed during Ashura
PESHAWAR: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that repatriation of Afghan refugees will remain suspended from Friday, 29th September to Monday,...
Pakistan demands UN send fact-finding mission to Indian occupied Kashmir
Pakistan has demanded UN intervention in India-held Kashmir through the deployment of a fact-finding mission in the region during a United Nations meeting where...
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...
Sindh CM urges UNHCR to expedite repatriation of Afghan refugee
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Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, said that Sindh had been host to registered and unregistered Afghan refugees for the past 37...
Over 350,000 Afghan refugees return from Pakistan, says UN
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...
Migrant protestors nearing Hungary border
Some 300 migrants, the largest group in many months to try to march across Serbia into Hungary, were nearing the border on Sunday, the...
PM approves Afghan refugees’ stay in Pakistan for six more months
Federal govt bars provincial govts from harassing and arresting Afghan refugees; govt to provide wheat for returning Afghan refugees for three years
KP govt opposes...
UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie calls Syrian crisis ‘tragic and shameful’
Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Angelina Jolie Pitt during a visit to a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon...
Over 56,000 registered Afghan refugees repatriated from Pakistan: UNHCR
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday it had so far facilitated the repatriation of over 56,000 registered Afghan refugees from Pakistan in...
Pak not to extend deadline for stay of Afghan refugees after...
Pakistan authorities have ruled out the extension of the December 31 deadline for their legal stay in the country, maintaining that they had prepared...
Pak not to extend deadline for stay of Afghan refugees after...
Pakistan authorities say they have a plan to begin a phased repatriation of 1.5 million Afghan refugees within the next two years, ruling out...
More than 500 Afghan refugees return home
Over 500 Afghan refugees of 70 families have voluntarily returned to their home country from different area of Balochistan on Thursday.
The Afghan refugees living...
UNHCR arrives in Pak on a three-day visit
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) António Guterres has begun a three-day Ramzan solidarity mission to Pakistan to express his appreciation with...
55,000 Afghan refugees have returned home since beginning of 2015
Every day, more than 30,000 people cross the Torkham border.
