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ISLAMABAD, (APP): The process of Afghan refugees
repatriation from Pakistan has accelerated as more than 20,000
Afghan refugees returned to Afghanistan in the month of July.
The number of repatriating of Afghan refugees voluntarily
returning Afghanistan from Pakistan has increased as compared to
their number in the first six months of the past year.
In this connection, United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNCHR) has accelerated activities to provide facilities
to the outgoing Afghan refugees.
Talking to VOA, UNCHR spokesperson in Peshawar, Samad Khan
has said that about 1070 Afghan refugee families had returned to
Afghanistan between January and June while their number between
July and August is registered as 19,530.
He informed that UNCHR is in constant contact with
Pakistan’s institution, Afghan Commissionerate, and has prepared a
scheduled for taking Afghan representatives and elders into
confidence in this regard.
Statistically, 1.5 million Afghan refugees have legally been
living in Pakistan while a similar number staying illegally in
different parts of the country.
Meanwhile, the government of Pakistan had extended the
deadline by six months, which will end on December 31, 2016.