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Pakistan Extends 1.45 Million Afghan Refugees' Right To Remain By 1 Year
Some 1.45 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan will be allowed to stay for another year, Islamabad said Wednesday, but it insisted evictions of undocumented migrants would continue.
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Pak Receives Global Condemnation Over $830 'Exit Fee' For Afghan Refugees: Report
Several Western diplomats and the United Nations have strongly criticised Pakistan over its decision to impose hundreds of dollars in exit fees for every Afghan refugee who fled the persecution by the Taliban condemning the decision as "shocking
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Pakistan Extends Legal Stay For 1.4 Million Afghan Refugees. New Deadline Is...
In early October, Islamabad issued a one-month ultimatum for all foreigners without legal documents to voluntarily return to their countries by November 1, warning of arrests and deportations for those remaining.
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Pakistan To Begin Deportation Of Illegal Immigrants From Nov 2: Minister
Pakistan will start a crackdown on undocumented immigrants, including hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals, from Nov. 2, the caretaker government's interior minister said on Tuesday.
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"We Are Without Hope": Afghan Refugees Crackdown Continues In Pakistan
The cow had been slaughtered and bags of rice purchased but young bride Wahida's nuptials were cut short when her groom was arrested on their wedding day, one of hundreds caught in a recent crackdown on Afghans living in Pakistan.
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Taliban Urges Afghan Refugees To Stay Away From Protests In Iran, Pakistan
Abdul Rahman Rashid, the Taliban's Deputy Minister of Refugees, urged Afghan refugees to avoid taking part in demonstrations held in Iran and Pakistan.
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Portrait Of Afghan Refugee Resurfaces Online, Internet Asks "Is This Amitabh Bachchan?"
World-renowned photographer Steve McCurry has reshared a picture of an Afghan refugee, which again led to a buzz on the internet that the man in that image is actor Amitabh Bachchan.
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Imran Khan To Give Pak Citizenship To Afghan, Bengali Immigrants
Pakistan's new premier Imran Khan has vowed to give citizenship to some Afghan refugees and Bengali immigrants, officials confirmed Monday, granting rights to many who have lived in the country for decades.
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From Refugee Camps To Lord's: Dizzying Rise Of Afghan Cricket
Millions of Afghans fleeing war have sought refuge for nearly 40 years in camps outside Pakistan's border city of Peshawar, where they have been exposed to the cricketing fever.
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Pakistan Targets Afghan Pashtuns And Refugees In Anti-Terrorism Crackdown
Since the Pakistani security forces launched a nationwide anti-terrorist operation in February after a spate of suicide bombings, Pashtun leaders have complained vociferously that their communities are being targeted for harassment and racial profiling, especially here in Punjab Province.
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National Geographic's 'Afghan Girl' Hospitalized In Pakistan
Pakistan's foreign ministry says an Afghan woman who gained fame in 1984 after a photograph of her as a refugee girl was published on the cover of National Geographic has been hospitalized after falling ill while in custody.
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200,000 Afghan Refugees Return In Exodus From Pakistan: UNHCR
More than 200,000 Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Pakistan this year, nearly half of them in September alone, UNHCR said Tuesday, the highest number since 2002, after the fall of the Taliban regime.
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Pakistan Deports 500 Afghan Refugees Before Registration Deadline Expires
Pakistani police have arrested at least 500 Afghan refugees in a northwestern border province and deported them as a security risk, officials said today, a day before the expiry of a refugee registration deadline.
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UN Urges Pakistan To Resolve Afghan Refugees' Status
A senior UN official has urged Pakistan to resolve the status of more than 2.5 million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan whose registration cards have expired or who remain unregistered.
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UN Refugee Chief Urges World Not to 'Forget' Afghans in Pakistan
The UN's top official for refugees has urged the world not to 'forget' the millions of Afghans forced to live for decades in Pakistan because of war in their homeland.
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Pakistan Extends 1.45 Million Afghan Refugees' Right To Remain By 1 Year
Some 1.45 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan will be allowed to stay for another year, Islamabad said Wednesday, but it insisted evictions of undocumented migrants would continue.
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Pak Receives Global Condemnation Over $830 'Exit Fee' For Afghan Refugees: Report
Several Western diplomats and the United Nations have strongly criticised Pakistan over its decision to impose hundreds of dollars in exit fees for every Afghan refugee who fled the persecution by the Taliban condemning the decision as "shocking
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Pakistan Extends Legal Stay For 1.4 Million Afghan Refugees. New Deadline Is...
In early October, Islamabad issued a one-month ultimatum for all foreigners without legal documents to voluntarily return to their countries by November 1, warning of arrests and deportations for those remaining.
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Pakistan To Begin Deportation Of Illegal Immigrants From Nov 2: Minister
Pakistan will start a crackdown on undocumented immigrants, including hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals, from Nov. 2, the caretaker government's interior minister said on Tuesday.
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"We Are Without Hope": Afghan Refugees Crackdown Continues In Pakistan
The cow had been slaughtered and bags of rice purchased but young bride Wahida's nuptials were cut short when her groom was arrested on their wedding day, one of hundreds caught in a recent crackdown on Afghans living in Pakistan.
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Taliban Urges Afghan Refugees To Stay Away From Protests In Iran, Pakistan
Abdul Rahman Rashid, the Taliban's Deputy Minister of Refugees, urged Afghan refugees to avoid taking part in demonstrations held in Iran and Pakistan.
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Portrait Of Afghan Refugee Resurfaces Online, Internet Asks "Is This Amitabh Bachchan?"
World-renowned photographer Steve McCurry has reshared a picture of an Afghan refugee, which again led to a buzz on the internet that the man in that image is actor Amitabh Bachchan.
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Imran Khan To Give Pak Citizenship To Afghan, Bengali Immigrants
Pakistan's new premier Imran Khan has vowed to give citizenship to some Afghan refugees and Bengali immigrants, officials confirmed Monday, granting rights to many who have lived in the country for decades.
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From Refugee Camps To Lord's: Dizzying Rise Of Afghan Cricket
Millions of Afghans fleeing war have sought refuge for nearly 40 years in camps outside Pakistan's border city of Peshawar, where they have been exposed to the cricketing fever.
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Pakistan Targets Afghan Pashtuns And Refugees In Anti-Terrorism Crackdown
Since the Pakistani security forces launched a nationwide anti-terrorist operation in February after a spate of suicide bombings, Pashtun leaders have complained vociferously that their communities are being targeted for harassment and racial profiling, especially here in Punjab Province.
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National Geographic's 'Afghan Girl' Hospitalized In Pakistan
Pakistan's foreign ministry says an Afghan woman who gained fame in 1984 after a photograph of her as a refugee girl was published on the cover of National Geographic has been hospitalized after falling ill while in custody.
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200,000 Afghan Refugees Return In Exodus From Pakistan: UNHCR
More than 200,000 Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Pakistan this year, nearly half of them in September alone, UNHCR said Tuesday, the highest number since 2002, after the fall of the Taliban regime.
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Pakistan Deports 500 Afghan Refugees Before Registration Deadline Expires
Pakistani police have arrested at least 500 Afghan refugees in a northwestern border province and deported them as a security risk, officials said today, a day before the expiry of a refugee registration deadline.
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UN Urges Pakistan To Resolve Afghan Refugees' Status
A senior UN official has urged Pakistan to resolve the status of more than 2.5 million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan whose registration cards have expired or who remain unregistered.
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UN Refugee Chief Urges World Not to 'Forget' Afghans in Pakistan
The UN's top official for refugees has urged the world not to 'forget' the millions of Afghans forced to live for decades in Pakistan because of war in their homeland.
