UNHCR chief hails Pakistan for hosting millions of Afghan refugees
PESHAWAR: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi on Saturday appreciated the…
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Pakistan declared world’s largest country to provide shelter to refugees : UNHCR
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been declared the largest country to provide shelter to refugees in the…
Repatriation of Afghan refugees key to terror eradication: Gen Qamar
KARACHI: While claiming that Pakistan does not have any organised presence of terror outfits on its…
Afghan refugees demand more time to settle business matters, reject Jan 31 deadline
PESHAWAR:Afghan refugee elders in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) have rejected the January 31 deadline set by the…
Pakistan, Afghan refugees take northern French town to cricket glory
SAINT OMER, France: On a rugby field overlooked by a towering cathedral, a group of…
Rutgers team wins $1 million ‘Nobel Prize for students’ with project in Pakistan
For recent Rutgers graduate Hasan Usmani, the sight of the vast Karachi slum was a…
Pakistan faces security challenges due to Afghan refugees
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Zubair Hayat stated that Pakistan is facing…
700,000 Afghan refugees returned home from Pakistan in 2016: IMF
WASHINGTON: More than 700,000 refugees returned to Afghanistan in 2016, most of them from Pakistan,…
More than 350,000 Afghan refugees return from Pakistan: UN
ISLAMABAD: More than 350,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their war-torn homeland from Pakistan this…
Government extends Afghan refugees’ stay until early 2017
ISLAMABAD: Officials said on Friday that the government had decided to extend the stay of…