Afghans in Pakistan

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Repatriation of Afghans Slowing As Conditions In Pakistan Improve

The number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan returning to their homeland is expected to decrease this year, UN officials...

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Pakistan Says Inflicted Heavy Losses On Afghan Border Forces

Pakistan's military on Sunday said it had killed more than 50 Afghan soldiers in a clash on a major border crossing two...

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Civilians Killed In Gunfight On Afghanistan-Pakistan Border

Pakistani and Afghan officials accused each other of killing civilians Friday after gunfire erupted near a major border...

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Fresh Surge of Refugees Return To Afghanistan From Pakistan

A fresh surge of undocumented refugees have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan this month, a humanitarian group said...

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Pakistan Resumes Repatriating Afghan Refugees Despite Criticism

Pakistan Monday resumed its mass repatriation of Afghan refugees despite past accusations of coercion in the supposedly...

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400,000 Afghan Children Expected To Drop Out of School

More than 400,000 Afghan children are expected to drop out of school this year in the face of growing insecurity and...

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Pakistan PM Orders Reopening of Border With Afghanistan

Pakistan on Monday ordered the border with Afghanistan to be reopened "immediately", a month after it was closed amid...

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Afghan Deportation Flight Left From Germany Half Empty

The German government admitted Friday it deported fewer than half the Afghans who were due to be repatriated on a...

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Germany Deports Third Batch of Afghan Migrants To Kabul

Eighteen Afghans deported from Germany arrived in Kabul Thursday after their asylum pleas were rejected, the third...

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Rights Group Raps Pakistan For ‘forced’ Repatriation of Afghans

Pakistan is conducting the mass repatriation of Afghan refugees through coercion, threats and abuse, Human Rights Watch...

International

Pakistan Deports ‘green-Eyed Girl’ Sharbat Gula

Pakistan has deported Sharbat Gula, the "green-eyed Afghan girl" in the renowned 1985 National Geographic photo, for...