UNHCR to halt Afghan repatriation for three months due to cold weather
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November 11, 2018
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that it has decided to suspend the repatriation process of Afghan refugees in Pakistan for around four months due to cold weather, Radio Pakistan reported on Sunday.
According to a spokesperson of the UNHCR, the repatriation process will be halted from Dec 1 till Feb 28 next year due to drop in temperature and severe cold.
The spokesperson further said that UNHCR centres in Pakistan and Afghanistan will remain closed during the winter.
It was also announced that registered refugees will not be given financial compensation in case of returning to Afghanistan during the period. The operation will resume from March next year.
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Ahmed Mobeen
Nov 11, 2018 03:16pm
Afghan Govt should pay for all expenses of the refugees
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Ahmed
Nov 11, 2018 03:25pm
Another attempt to delay return of Afghan refugees.
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El Cid
Nov 11, 2018 04:14pm
These Afghan refugees should be given Pakistani citizenship. Those who were born in Pakistan are by definition, by their birth right, Pakistani citizens.
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M. Saeed
Nov 11, 2018 05:12pm
Cold weather has just started and they are the people who have known since ages, how to live in their fatherland. A bird in air is many times better than a bird in caged refuge.
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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad
Nov 11, 2018 05:39pm
What other options do they have under the current prevailing circumstances and ground realities?
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Adi
Nov 11, 2018 06:28pm
Afghanistan and pakistan has almost identical weather! Lame excuse !
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Tarik
Nov 11, 2018 08:30pm
Send them all let Ghani or Karzai take care of them. Pakistan have been hosting them foe almost 3 decades with out any appreciation.
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Sulaman Niazi
Nov 11, 2018 10:04pm
@El Cid,
These Afghan refugees when they move back to their country say by next summer, will take their children born in Pakistan with them, so there is no point giving them Pakistani citizenship. All Afghanies must have their Pakistani NIC as 'AFGHAN REFUGEEREFUGEES' including their children. These NIC should become NULL & VOID and should be collected on their point of return to Afghanistan by our Immigratiin staff and the Afghan Govt should simultaneously issue all returning refugees with their New Identity Document as Afghanies on entry into Afghanistan. Thereafter none of these refugees should be allowed to visit or enter Pakistan, without proper immigration documents like Afghani Passports stamped with a valid Afghan Visa for specific period.
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IKE Khan
Nov 11, 2018 10:11pm
UN has never been neutral. UN is an Anti Pakistan organization.
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Philosopher (From Japan)
Nov 11, 2018 11:45pm
In what capacity they can dictate Pakistan government?
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HA
Nov 12, 2018 12:09am
They are always looking for excuse
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M Naqvi
Nov 12, 2018 12:23am
Oh dear another delay. How long people of Pakistan has to suffer. Afghanistan is a sovereign state with powerful handlers why the US or India does not take in refugees instead.
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SHAHID SATTAR
Nov 12, 2018 10:14am
Why not stop it permanently? It is either cold or hot weather reaching its extreme limits one after another. The poor travellers have to travel one way with the government support and return after getting benefits to seek greener pastures for themselves and their families in the land of the pure for which they have to bear their own costs. The exercise also entitles them for the next round as refugees and for aid and compensation and eventual return back to their hearth and home.
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