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    Over 41,000 refugees return from Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD (PAN): More than 41,000 Afghans refuges have returned to their country from Pakistan during the current year, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday.



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    Kabul asks Pakistan be soft on refugees

    KABUL CITY (PAN): The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation expressed concern on the recent remarks of Pakistan to expel unregistered Afghan refugees living in the country and asked the neighboring government to take a softer position.



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    Model township for Afghan returnees

    KUNDUZ (PAN): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is constructing a model township for Afghan refugees returning home in the Aliabad district of northern Kunduz province, an official said on Monday.



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    Afghan officials in Islamabad for refugee talks

    ISLAMABAD (PAN): An Afghan official delegation is due to arrive in Islamabad on Monday for a three-day visit to hold talks with Pakistani officials over a planned repatriation of Afghan refugees to their homeland in May.



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    Returnees seek land plots in Nangarhar

    JALALABAD (PAN): Nearly 183 families returning from Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to the eastern province of Nangarhar on Saturday asked the Afghan government to allot them land plots for construction of houses.



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    Illegal Afghans asked to leave Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    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.



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    Hundreds of families get winter assistance

    JALALABAD (PAN): Up to 1,300 deserving families received winter assistance from the departments of rural rehabilitation and returnee affairs in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Monday.



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    Pakistan to expel illegal Afghans until end of 2012

    ISLAMABAD (PAN): Pakistan has decided to expel all illegal Afghan refugees until the end of 2012, an official said on Sunday.



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    400 Nangarhar families receive aid

    JALALABAD (PAN): Nearly 400 families on Wednesday received relief items in eastern Nangarhar province, while another 200 poor families in Khaki Jabbar district of central Kabul province were given



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    77 illegal Afghans detained by Indonesian police

    KABUL (PAN): Seventy-seven Afghan citizens have been arrested for entering Indonesia illegally, a media report said on Tuesday.