More than 50,000 Afghan Migrants Returned to Country: Maikhail

Officials in Ministry of Repatriation and Refugee have stated that more than 50,000 Afghan migrants have returned to the country from Pakistan in the past one month, saying efforts are underway to review the migrants basic problems.

Officials in United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees insisted that considering the high numbers of the repatriated returnees, we have doubled our cash aids.

After the mutual ties between Kabul and Islamabad the challenges of the Afghan migrants in Pakistan raised, Pakistan military are expelling Afghan migrants by force.

Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation Advisor Hafiz Ahmad Maikhail said,” Afghan migrants in Pakistan are facing huge problems, due that issue more than 500,00 Afghan migrants returned to the country, efforts are underway to resolve their issues with the related departments.”

 Meanwhile United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees Spokesman Nadir Farhad said,” Observing the tripartite agreement in between Afghanistan, UNHCR, Pakistan, returning of the migrants should be optional and gradual, in the past two months high number of Afghan migrants were expelled by Pakistani military forces, we have doubled the cash aids for those Afghan returnees that means each single returnee receives $400 US dollar.”

Its said that more than 1 million Afghans are still living in Pakistan, they have left the country due to insecurity, unemployment.

Reported by Rafi Sediqee