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...
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...
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.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) on Monday said more than 10,000 Afghan refugee families returned to their home country from neighboring countries during the past one week. A MoRR statement received by Pajhwok Afghan...
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Families, who fled violence in their home province of Helmand and migrated to southern Kandahar province, say they are leading a life full of miseries and no one has assisted them so far. Members of the displaced families told...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The government has decided to distribute national identity cards and passports to Afghan nationals living in Pakistan , Iran and Gulf countries, an official said on Monday. To this effect, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Tehran on Sunday expressed its readiness to work together with Kabul on legalising the status of Afghans living in the neighbouring country and offered all possible support to the war-torn nation.. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Refugees families, who returned from neighbouring countries in recent years, say the government has issued them ownership documents of land plots, but they are yet to possess the plots and other promised facilities. A large number...
ISLAMABAD (Pajhwok): Afghan refugees living in Pakistan ’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday said the ‘refugee card’ had no benefit except their identification.
SHARAN (Pajhwok): Refugees from the North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan are preventing a polio vaccination campaign in southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Saturday. Dr. Mohammad Noor, director of polio vaccine campaign in Paktika...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday signed extension into the stay of Afghan refugees until the end of this year, underlining importance of moving expeditiously to support the needs of the refugees. Representatives from Pakistan,...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Deputy refugee and repatriation minister Ahad Wali Hakimi on Sunday identified the lack of shelter as main problem being faced by recently returned families.
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Eighty percent of refugee families who recently returned from Pakistan have been settled in eastern Nangarhar province, officials say, fearing humanitarian crisis after the influx. Residents, officials and provincial council...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The United States has pledged $29 million and Japan $5 million in aid for Afghan families returning from Pakistan and Iran, officials said on Thursday.
KABUL CITY (Pajhwok): Nearly 12,000 repatriated refugees will get land plots under a residential scheme launched on Thursday in eastern Laghman province. The Laghman provincial press department in a statement said the township was being constructed...
SHARANA (Pajhwok): The refugees from Pakistan ’s Waziristan region in southeastern Paktika province on Saturday demand aid as they feared hardships with the advent of winter.
TALOQAN (Pajhwok): More than a dozen people were injured after local residents and returning refugees clashed in Dasht Kala district of northeastern Takhar province on Saturday. Abdullah, 60, one of the returnees in the area, told Pajhwok Afghan...
SHARANA (Pajhwok): A number of internally displaced families and those migrating from Pakistan ’s Waziristan tribal area to southeastern Paktika province say they are in dire need of assistance. The families said they should be provided with aid...