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Keeping Pakistan's cultural capital clean
4 Oct 2007 An Afghan community helps to collect and recycle garbage in Lahore - work that few Pakistanis want to do. They make minimum wages and live in miserable slum conditions, but would rather stay in Pakistan than face poverty and insecurity back home. -
UNHCR seeks $10 million to continue Afghan repatriation
10 Aug 2007 The UN refugee agency has requested an additional $10 million to cover the cost of repatriating Afghans, who are returning from Pakistan to their homeland in greater numbers this year than originally forecast. -
Afghans still in Pakistan face challenges to return
7 Aug 2007 On a visit to refugee camps in Pakistan, the UN refugee agency's Assistant High Commissioner for Operations emphasized that repatriation of Afghans will be gradual because of the many difficulties they had in returning. -
Agreement on Afghan repatriation from Pakistan extended three years
2 Aug 2007 The governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and UNHCR, extend a agreement providing for voluntary, gradual and sustainable repatriation of registered Afghans from Pakistan over the next three years. -
Kacha Garhi refugee camp closes in Pakistan after 27 years
27 Jul 2007 The Afghan refugee camp, one of the oldest and largest in North-West Frontier Province, has closed after two years of negotiations. Its peaceful resolution after a long stand-off sets the tone for future camp closure and consolidation in Pakistan. -
Pakistan's flood victims seek shelter from showers, shade from the sun
18 Jul 2007 As the United Nations launches a US$38 million appeal for flood relief in Pakistan, UNHCR and its partners step up the distribution of emergency supplies and shelter materials to affected Afghan refugees and their host communities. -
Afghan returnees seek livelihood in life-giving projects
9 Jul 2007 Many Afghans in exile say they cannot return home due to a lack of jobs in Afghanistan. The UN refugee agency is working with the Afghan government and other organisations to ease the livelihood problem for vulnerable returnees, but the gaps remain immense. -
Give us schools, not supplies, urges Afghan headmistress
28 Jun 2007 In a country with limited formal education for Afghan refugee girls, one woman is trying to make a difference. Jamila Abbasi is headmistress of three schools for more than 1,500 Afghan children in the town of Quetta in southern Pakistan. -
Training Pakistan's police in refugee rights
25 Jun 2007 The UN refugee agency recently completed a three-day workshop for police officers in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province to sensitize them on refugee rights at a time when tensions are running high among the Afghan population.