KABUL (PAN): A new strategy for supporting repatriation, sustainable reintegration and assistance to countries hosting Afghan refugees was adopted at a two-day international conference in Geneva.
WASHINGTON (PAN): A meeting in Switzerland this week would discuss the status of Afghan refugees and develop a multi-year strategy to address assistance to those living in exile and returnees.
ISLAMABAD (PAN): Authorities in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province set one month deadline for illegal Afghan refugees to leave, an official said on Wednesday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Afghan refugees recently returning from a lawless tribal region in neighbouring Pakistan to eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Wednesday said the Pakistani Taliban threatened them against returning to homeland.
ISLAMABAD (PAN): Pakistan Minister for States and Frontier Regions Eng. Shaukatullah Khan said they would repatriate Afghan refugees from Pakistan by the end of 2012.
KABUL (PAN): Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul on Saturday said the Iranian government would issue over the next eight months visas and other legal documents to nearly one and a half million Afghan refugees living in the neighbouring country.
KABUL (PAN): An ongoing security operation in northwestern Pakistan has displaced more than 180,000 people, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.
