VOA News September 9, 2016 Noor Zahid Mehdi Jedinia The Afghan government is protesting Iran’s decision to blindfold several Afghans and put them in cages in the center of Shiraz this week. Nearly two dozen handcuffed Afghan refugees were displayed in a large metal cage. Police also exhibited confiscated items, including weapons, explosives, drugs, alcohol
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 9, 2016 Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has extended the stay for Afghan refugees in the country until March 2017, pushing back the previous deadline by three months. Sharif approved this decision at a September 9 cabinet meeting. A government statement quoted Sharif as saying that Afghan refugees were “guests”
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 7, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations has warned of a growing threat to aid workers in Afghanistan where it says millions of people are in urgent need of life-saving assistance. “I am deeply concerned that aid workers are being targeted, with 93 of our colleagues abducted since the beginning of
1TV: Afghan officials said on Sunday they had agreed to return of 50 refugees per week from Germany. Around 250,000 Afghans applied for asylum in Europe last year with Germany as their top destination. EU is seeking to send a large number of the refugees back to their country. Click here to read more (external link). Related
1TV: After Syria, Afghanistan is one of the World’s largest producers of refugees; a staggering 12.96 percent of all citizens of Afghanistan lived outside their country of origin, according to the International Organization for Migration, in 2015. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, reports that there are approximately 2.6 million registered Afghan refugees that are dispersed throughout 70
Press TV August 26, 2016 The political party of Dutch far-right politician, Geert Wilders, has pledged to close mosques and ban Islam’s holy book of Quran amid growing Islamophobic sentiments in the European country. In a document outlining its electoral program ahead of March 2017 parliamentary elections, the Freedom Party, known by its Dutch acronym
Khaama Press: A young Afghan migrant was shot dead by unknown gunmen as he was trying to cross into Western Europe from Bulgaria, it has been reported. The Ministry of Defense of Serbia said Wednesday that the migrant had received wounds in his chest and the alleged man behind the attack has been detained. Click here to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 23, 2016 Police in Italy say a migrant from Afghanistan travelled 400 kilometers along a highway strapped to the bottom of a truck. According to reports on August 23, the Afghan youth was detained by police along the Naples-Rome stretch of the A1 highway. Police were alerted by motorists who
Tolo News: Thousands of families who have returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan in the past month are in urgent need of assistance – and only a few have received any support so far. In a statement issued by Country Director of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Afghanistan, Kate O’Rourke said: “These people are falling between the
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) — Marginalized by a group of playing children outside Afghanistan’s Kunduz provincial capital the Kunduz city, Zarmina, 9, whispered that the children here do not like to play with her and that is why she feels upset. “I like to return to my village in Qala-e-Zal and play with Maryam,