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Migration

Half a million Afghan IDPs to get winter aid

By
Javed Hamim Kakar
On
Nov 22, 2017 - 16:44
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have devised a joint plan of providing essential aid to half a million displaced people this winter. Hafizullah Miakhel, media advisor to the...
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Waziristan refugee families in Paktika seek assistance

By
Rahim Khan Khoshal
On
Nov 21, 2017 - 16:07
SHARANA (Pajhwok): Thousands of displaced families from the North and South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan in southeastern Paktika province demand assistance. Abdul Hakim, on behalf of the refugees, told Pajhwok Afghan News that thousands of...
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Relocation of Afghan refugee camp demanded

By
S.Muddasir Ali Shah
On
Nov 21, 2017 - 08:40
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Local elders have called for shifting an Afghan refugee camp out of a populated area of Pakistan ’s northwestern Kohat district. Elders from Junglekhel area issued the call for relocation of the refugee camps. They also urged the...
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370,000 Afghans in Pakistan yet to receive cards

By
S.Muddasir Ali Shah
On
Nov 13, 2017 - 10:17
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): The government of Pakistan is yet to start issuing cards to about 370,000 Afghan citizens who were recently registered across the country. The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has not even printed the cards...
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4,256 refugee families return via Spin Boldak this year

By
Bashir Ahmad Naadim
On
Nov 12, 2017 - 11:02
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): A total of 4,256 Afghan refugee families returned from Pakistan via the Spin Boldak border crossing into southern Kandahar province this year, officials say. The Refugee and Repatriate Department of Kandahar province says the...
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Paktika: 130 displaced families receive assistance

By
Pajhwok Report
On
Oct 06, 2017 - 14:13
KABUL (Pajhwok): Relief items worth half a million afghanis have been distributed to war-displaced families in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Friday. Governor Ilyas Wahdat told Pajhwok Afghan News 130 displaced households...
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Afghans deported from Europe face death, torture

By
Azizullah Hamdard
On
Oct 05, 2017 - 15:27
KABUL (Pajhwok): A global human rights watchdog on Thursday assailed European governments for putting thousands of Afghans in harm’s way by forcibly returning them to their homeland. The Afghans deported from European countries were at serious risk...
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Registration of Afghan citizens in KP resumes

By
S.Muddasir Ali Shah
On
Oct 03, 2017 - 14:08
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): The Pakistan government resumed on Tuesday the registration of undocumented Afghan citizens in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The documentation process was temporarily suspended ahead of Muharram by...
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12 weapons recovered from repatriates’ truck

By
Yousuf Zarifi
On
Sep 23, 2017 - 20:41
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Border police recovered 12 weapons from a truck bringing refugee families from Pakistan to Afghanistan in Torkham border town in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Saturday.
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3,629 refugee families return to Kandahar this year

By
Bashir Ahmad Naadim
On
Sep 14, 2017 - 00:00
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): So far 3,629 Afghan refugee families have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan via the Spin Boldak-Chaman border crossing this year, officials in southern Kandahar province say.
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Khost: Displaced families in need of assistance

By
Javed Hamim Kakar
On
Sep 13, 2017 - 15:19
KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Families displaced as a result of war from Paktia to Khost province demand immediate assistance from government and humanitarian organisations. Logar Khan, a resident of Janikhel district, told Pajhwok Afghan News he moved to...
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Hundreds flee clashes in Paktika’s Gomal

By
Rahim Khan Khoshal
On
Sep 07, 2017 - 18:12
SHARANA (Pajhwok): Hundreds of families have fled ongoing clashes between security forces and militants in the Gomal district of southeastern Paktika province. One of them, Sayed Shah, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the clashes in Gomal erupted two...
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IDPs seek solution to their problems as they have nothing to celebrate Eid

By
Khaja Basir Ahmad
On
Sep 01, 2017 - 10:12
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have demanded the government to provide them with work opportunities as they have been facing multiple challenges.
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Voluntary return of Afghan refugees slows down

By
S.Muddasir Ali Shah
On
Aug 28, 2017 - 13:02
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees to their homeland has cosiderably slowed dow as undocumented migrants stream to registration centres across Pakistan . Around 25,000 illegal Afghans have been registered by Pakistan's...
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Peshawar University to set up refugee study centre

By
S.Muddasir Ali Shah
On
Aug 28, 2017 - 12:44
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): The University of Peshawar, in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, plans to set up a centre for refugee and migration studies. The Department of International Relations said on Sunday it was...
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Pakistan facilitates Afghan refugees with education, training

By
Gul Rahman Rahmani
On
Aug 25, 2017 - 12:06
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan refugees’ ministry official have said multiple facilities had been provided to Afghan refugees in Pakistan including education and trainings.
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Pakistan to document 700,000 illegal Afghan migrants

By
Pajhwok
On
Aug 21, 2017 - 16:36
KABUL (Pajhwok): Ten thousands illegal Afghan refugees have been registered recently in Pakistan , with another seven hundred thousand illegal refugees to be documented in the coming six months, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said...
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Germany won’t deport Afghan refugees: Alemi

By
S.Muddasir Ali Shah
On
Aug 14, 2017 - 12:52
KABUL (Pajhwok): In the wake of an attack on the German embassy in Kabul, Berlin has decided to halt deportation of Afghan refugees, the minister of refugees says. Under the German interior ministry’s decision, only those Afghans involved in...
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‘Power lines cut by Nangarhar official being investigated’

By
Yousuf Zarifi
On
Aug 10, 2017 - 19:23
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Provincial council head of eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday said power cables allegedly severed by the provincial refugees and repatriation director in Jalalabad city would be investigated. The provincial council head,...
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PMGGI seeks joint body to address migration conundrum

By
Mohammad Halim Karimi
On
Aug 09, 2017 - 22:26
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Peace, Media and Good Governance Institute (PMGGI) has demanded the creation of a joint commission to handle migration -related challenges and issues.
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