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Chaman, Pakistan, 14 July– Nazar Mohammad, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province, stood alone at one corner of the Chaman ”waiting area” watching trucks leave in the early hours of the morning. He was […]

Islamabad, 11 July– The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced today that it has helped more than 200,000 Afghan refugees return from Pakistan to their homeland so far this year. During the same time, more than […]

Islamabad Following an apology from Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the ransacking of the Pakistani embassy in Kabul on Tuesday, government officials, peace activists, Afghan refugees and regional experts have expressed mixed reactions to the […]

New York, 8 July– The deferment of a vote on proposed internal security legislation in Hong Kong marks a major victory for democratic forces within the semi-autonomous territory, Freedom House said today. The decision by […]

Kabul, 4 July– Sitting in a relative’s dark, tiny room with no electricity and telephone in the capital, Kabul, Nik Mohammad, a newly deported Afghan from Britain, told IRIN he could not decide whether to […]

CHAMAN, Pakistan, 4 July– The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has relocated 3,651 Afghans to new sites inside Pakistan and Afghanistan during the first five days of an effort to clear a makeshift camp where thousands […]

Dushanbe, 3 July– The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has closed one of its major Central Asian aid corridors to Afghanistan when it halted logistics operations in Tajikistan’s eastern border crossing of Ishkashim. ”We are […]

Ankara, Turkey, 2 July– Officials of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) have expressed concern over human trafficking in Kyrgyzstan, which is said to be on the rise due to poverty, high unemployment and inadequate […]