Tolo News: The Afghan Minister of Refugees and Repatriation, Sayed Hussain Alemi Balkhi, said on Tuesday more than 300,000 Afghan refugees have returned home in the past five months. Addressing an event on the eve of World Refugee Day in Kabul, Balkhi said that since the beginning of 2018 more than 900 Afghan migrants have returned
VOA News Ayaz Gul December 19, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The Afghan government revealed Monday that more than one million refugees have “voluntarily” returned home from Pakistan and Iran in 2016, representing the highest number of returnees in 14 years. Afghan Refugees and Repatriation Minister Sayed Hussain Alimi Balkhi told the national parliament the returnees from the
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News | July 29, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The Afghan government has been unable to help some of its most vulnerable citizens, those displaced internally by violence, due to resistance from provincial governments, lack of capacity in key ministries, and corruption, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. In an audit letter sent
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 23, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Pakistan has assured neighboring Afghanistan that peace talks with the Taliban “will resume in a month” to find a peaceful end to the Afghan conflict. Taliban-led insurgent violence has spiked in Afghanistan with the onset of spring, prompting fears this year could see record levels of bloodshed across
Tolo News: Refugees and Repatriation Minister Sayed Hussain Alemi Balkhi, who was summoned to the Meshrano Jirga [Upper House of Parliament] on Sunday, said had managed to stop the expulsion of at least 100,000 Afghan refugees from European countries in recent weeks. He said more than 250,000 Afghans have sought refuge in Europe over the past year