This photo taken on April 21, 2024 shows refugee children at the Torkham border crossing point in east Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province. A total of 837 refugees returned from Pakistan via the Torkham and Spin Boldak border crossing points to Afghanistan, Afghanistan's Ministry for Refugees and Rep...
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Some refugees have been living in Pakistan for three generations. They have established their business here, and some of them have even married locals and have been deeply integrated into the society. They do not think of going back to Afghanistan even in their wildest dreams as it would mean...
ISLAMABAD, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Friday extended the stay of the Afghan refugees living in the country by 16 months, Pakistan's Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) said. The Afghan refugees' stay in Pakistan was set to expire on June 30, 2019 but now their stay ...
Some 300,000 Afghan refugees have returned their homeland since the beginning of 2016, Jurhat said. Around 2.5 million Afghan refugees are presently living in Pakistan, the official said, adding out of these 1.5 million are registered refugees and the remaining are unregistered. ...
Over 25 per cent of present day refugees enjoy asylum in Pakistan, most of them having been there for more than a quarter of a century. Pakistan is not, however, a party to either the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees or the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refug...
As the November 1 deadline determined by the Pakistani interim government for the Afghan refugees to leave approaches, pressure is mounting on the Afghan nationals who are recognized as “il
The Pakistani government gave 1.7 million Afghan refugees living in the country until Nov. 1 to leave voluntarily or face arrest and forced deportation.
"Afghanistan has absolutely nothing for transgenders," he said, adding that his advocacy organization is currently handling the cases of about 50 transgender Afghan refugees. He said some of them don't have documentation permitting them to remain in Pakistan, so if they're caught, he fea...
Afghan refugee children play at a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on May 20, 2014. Pakistani authorities have launched a crackdown on Afghan refugees residing illegally in the country as fears have compounded that the exit of US-led forces in Afghanistan could ignite viol...