Pakistan to Deport 50,000 Afghan RefugeesAbout 50,000 Afghan refugees living in the Jalozai Camp will very soon be returned to Afghanistan, according to a news dispatch reaching Thursday.Similarly, 100,000 more Afghan refugees living in the Nasir Bagh Camp near Peshawar have also been ordered to vacate the camp. They would be shifted to a camp near Kohat in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). The report quoted the NWFP governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah as saying that the province could not afford more Afghan refugees in the prevailing conditions and they should go back to their motherland. According to another report by Dawn, a Karachi-based newspaper, at least 130 houses of Afghan refugees were demolished by the authorities in the Ghamkol Camp near Kohat on Wednesday without serving any notice or providing the Afghan displaced persons with alternative accommodation. The operation had been carried out on the instructions of the NWFP governor, Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, said Dawn. |
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