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DAWN.com
March 23, 2018
The notices were served on 1,600 Afghan families living in Sheikhabad, Barari and Ichrian refugee camps and other parts of Mansehra district. “All Afghan families settled anywhere in the district are required to move to the Khaki Camp by April 10, while the defiant ones will be deported,” assistantÃâà...
Kathimerini
March 23, 2018
A 26-year old Syrian man set himself on fire at a refugee camp on the island of Lesvos on Thursday, in one of the most serious incidents involving stranded ... More than 60,000 refugees and migrants, most from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have been in Greece for more than a year after border shutdownsÃâà...
Arab News
March 23, 2018
... support for Afghanistan's reconciliation process. "Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi reiterated Pakistan's support to the efforts for Afghan reconciliation under an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process," said a statement from PM's Office on the prime minister's meeting with Afghan AmbassadorÃâà...
Glamour
March 23, 2018
In three days, 30-year-old Indra Gurung and her seven-year-old son Suyok have traveled from a refugee camp in Nepal to Kathmandu, Qatar, New York, ... and Afghanistan the women (who I found through an intake agency called the Refugee Empowerment Center) are immersing themselves in local life.
DAWN.com
March 23, 2018
The notices were served on 1,600 Afghan families living in Sheikhabad, Barari and Ichrian refugee camps and other parts of Mansehra district. “All Afghan families settled anywhere in the district are required to move to the Khaki Camp by April 10, while the defiant ones will be deported,” assistantÃâà...
Arab News
March 16, 2018
In this file photo, an Afghan refugee girl carries her brother at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Islamabad on Feb. 1, 2018. (AFP). March 15: The Nation states that the United Nations High Commission for Refugees has declared Pakistan as the only country of the world which has provided shelter to theÃâà...
Budget
March 12, 2018
Herrera of Berlin met Hochstetler, who hails from Millersburg, during her work in the Eleonas Refugee Camp in Greece last year. The duo is working to raise awareness of the refugee ... One day, a refugee from Afghanistan approached Miller at the gate. They began to communicate, and he showed herÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
March 12, 2018
This excessive instability created a breeding ground for the Taliban movement, which was conceived in Islamic schools and Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. Beginning as an initiative to end roadblocks and corruption, the movement escalated quickly with the promise of bringing an end to the violence on behalf of theÃâà...
KCBX
March 9, 2018
Rasha al-Ahmad, 25, washes her hands with donated bottled water inside a tent her family put up next to the Moria refugee camp. Her 1-year-old .... As a result, the refugee camps on Greek islands, built to house no more than 2,000 people each, often hold more than three times that number. Leila HassanÃâà...
Gulf Times
March 9, 2018
An Afghan man who arranged for the travel of more than 200 refugees and asylum seekers by boat to Western Australia, has been sentenced to 12 years ... out a letter sent by Abbas - who is illiterate and had to ask another inmate to write for him - in the court that described his desperate life in Afghanistan.
The Border Mail
March 9, 2018
Abbas said he had no employment prospects in Afghanistan and wanted to provide for his mother and sister but had to flee the Taliban. ... The court heard he lived in a refugee camp for five years, endured torture while incarcerated in Indonesia, and now suffers from depression and post-traumatic stressÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 9, 2018
Earlier this year, Islamabad accused US forces of conducting unmanned aerial vehicle attacks on refugee camps in Pakistan's western Kurram region, Sputnik reported. The US Embassy in Pakistan called the charge false. Pakistan is a "peace-loving nation, but we do not want anybody to interfere into ourÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 9, 2018
An Afghan man who played a major role in organising the transport of more than 200 asylum seekers from Indonesia to WA has been sentenced to 12 years in ... The court heard he lived in a refugee camp for five years, endured torture while incarcerated in Indonesia, and now suffers from depression andÃâà...
WBUR
March 9, 2018
Those who receive asylum can go on to mainland Greece — to subsidized housing or, if that's not available, to another refugee camp that's better equipped than ... As a result, the refugee camps on Greek islands, built to house no more than 2,000 people each, often hold more than three times that number.
UrduPoint News
March 9, 2018
MANSEHRA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 09th Mar, 2018 ):The District Mansehra Administration has started taking measures to shift the Afghan refugee camps to the alternate places to address problems of the local population. Assistant Commissioner Capt (Retd) Abdur Rahman on Friday paid aÃâà...
The Guardian
February 28, 2018
The boy, known as ZS, was living in the Calais refugee camp when the French authorities cleared it in October 2016 and he applied unsuccessfully to be ... with post-traumatic stress disorder and attempted suicide three times, has been trying to reach the UK since he fled Afghanistan three years ago.
Science Magazine
February 28, 2018
Psychosocial programs, usually staffed by laypeople with various levels of training, are feasible in war zones and refugee camps in a way that specialized psychological care often is not. The question is: Do .... In Afghanistan, she probed the mental health of young people in the wake of war. Panter-BrickÃâà...
The Express Tribune
February 21, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Wali Khan Azizi used to run a small carpet shop in Islamabad but the 55-year-old Afghan who had been staying in Islamabad as a refugee sold his carpets and other household goods recently in anticipation of returning to Afghanistan. It would be like becoming an “immigrant” all over again,Ãâà...
Pacific Standard
February 21, 2018
When I meet them for the first time in early 2017, they're refugees in Greece's biggest refugee camp, Skaramagas, and the hot topic of gossip here is one that few Western kids would relate to. "The thing we talk about most is relocation," says Doski, the tall, spiky-haired 17-year-old who fled Mosul, Iraq,Ãâà...
Voice of America
February 18, 2018
It is the only way we can ensure that no one is misusing our hospitality and soil for mischief in Afghanistan," Bajwa said. But Said Alam, a ... Terrorists cross into Pakistan and stay in the refugee camps, making it humanly impossible to carry out any sort of surveillance," he added. Saeed said the logicalÃâà...
Voice of America
February 15, 2018
"It's in our mutual interest that the border is fenced." Asif also said the return of more than 2 million Afghan refugees from Pakistan is essential for peace and wants the U.S. to help with the repatriation. The Pakistani government sees the refugee camps as a breeding ground for militants while AfghanistanÃâà...
The Nation
February 5, 2018
Security forces arrested 12 suspects, including four alleged members of Afghanistan's secret agency National Directorate of Security (NDS) during a search operation in Pishin district. According to reports, the search operation was conducted by Levies personnel in the Surkhab Afghan refugee camp and itsÃâà...
DAWN.com
February 4, 2018
QUETTA: Security forces have arrested 12 suspects, including four alleged members of Afghanistan's secret agency National Directorate of Security ... They said here on Sunday that the search operation was conducted by Levies personnel in the Surkhab Afghan refugee camp and its adjacent areas on theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
January 30, 2018
... of Kurram, Pakistan's military said that the target had been hiding in an Afghan refugee camp. "This validates Pakistan's stance that left over terrorists easily morph into Afghan refugees' camps/complexes," the military said in a statement. "Thus their early and dignified return to Afghanistan is essential."Ãâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
December 31, 1999
When the Soviets first launched an attack in Afghanistan, a large influx of Afghans fleeing the war ended up in Peshawar's upscale Hayatabad area, a suburban-fringe. Those who could afford it settled in rented houses. Others, the less fortunate one, were shepherded into refugee camps. In either case, a bond wasÃâà...
Asia Times
December 31, 1999
“By slowing down the process of renewal, Pakistan actually wants to pressurize the US and Afghanistan. Otherwise, the legal residency rights of the registered refugees are guaranteed in a trilateral agreement earlier signed with Afghanistan and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR),”Ãâà...
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