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- Pakistan
Two million Afghans still living in Pakistan: UNHCR
Islamabad: More than two million Afghan refugees are still living in Pakistan despite over a million returning to their country in 2025. In November alone, 171,055 Afghans returned to Afghanistan, with 37,899…
- Afghanistan
Arrests of Afghan nationals in Pakistan jump 146 per cent in one week: UN
Peshawar: Arrests and detentions of Afghan nationals in Pakistan surged by 146 per cent in the week ending November 1, driven largely by the reopening of border crossings, according to a UN…
- Middle East
Displaced Syrians who have returned home face fragile future: UNHCR chief
Damascus: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Friday that more than two million Syrian refugees and internally displaced people have returned home since the fall of the government of…
- Pakistan
Pakistan set to intensify deportation of Afghan refugees post Eid holidays
Islamabad: Pakistan is set to intensify the deportation of Afghan refugees post Eid holidays as the March 31 deadline for refugees, including Afghan Citizen Card holders, to voluntarily return to their home…
- Middle East
Over 270,000 Syrian refugees return since Assad’s ouster: UNHCR
Damascus: More than 270,000 Syrian refugees have returned since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024, with over a quarter of those still abroad expressing a desire to return in…
- India
No discrimination in education: SC on plea for schools to Rohingya refugees
New Delhi: No child will be discriminated against in education, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday while fixing for next week a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and the Delhi…
- Pakistan
Pak grants 1-yr extension to registered Afghan refugees; halts deportation
Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Wednesday granted a one-year extension to registered Afghan refugees till June 30 next year, a respite for Afghan nationals living legally in the country who were facing…
- World
Record 114 mn people displaced worldwide: UN
Geneva: The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations globally is likely to have exceeded 114 million at the end of September, the United Nations (UN) Refugee…
- Middle East
UNHCR sends flood relief supplies to Libya
Tripoli: The UNHCR has said it had sent relief supplies to Libya to aid its response to the deadly floods that swept its eastern region. In the past two days, the UNHCR…
- Middle East
Lebanon asks UNHCR for Syrian refugee data to tighten control
Beirut: Lebanese Director General of Public Security Elias al-Baissari has called on the UNHCR to provide Lebanon with data on the displaced Syrians, aiming to tighten the country’s refugee measures. “I am…
- Featured News
How Sudan’s booming economy attracted Gulf NRIs
Prominent Hyderabadi Afsar Faheem Jeddah: Sudan is one of the mineral rich countries in Africa with abundant water resources that has attracted some Indians who worked in Gulf countries. Some well settled…
- World
UK asylum bill would ‘undermine’ international law: UNHCR
Geneva [Switzerland], March 9 (ANI): The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday (local time) said that the UK asylum bill would ‘undermine’ international law. British Home Secretary Suella Braverman introduced an Illegal…
