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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have demanded the government to provide them with work opportunities as they have been facing multiple challenges.
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...
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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan refugees’ ministry official have said multiple facilities had been provided to Afghan refugees in Pakistan including education and trainings.
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...
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...
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,...
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.