60,000 Afghans asked to go home.Byline: PAN Monitor 60,000 Afghans asked to go home PAN Monitor - Oct 8, 2008 - 19:05 PESHAWAR (PAN): Pakistan has ordered around 60,000 Afghan refugees Afghan refugees (known as Muhajir Afghans in South Asia) are people who fled Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979 and during the civil war that followed. Since the early 1980s to the late 1990s, there were approximately 3 million Afghan refugees staying in living in tribal areas Tribal Areas can refer to:
The deportation order deportation order n → orden f de expulsión or deportación deportation order n → arrêté m d'expulsion deportation order came after a deadline set for them to go back to their homeland expired on Sunday, security officials said. On the orders of the interior ministry we have launched a crackdown against Afghan refugees who did not leave the area, a government official said. He said that most of the Afghans were in Bajaur illegally, having sneaked back in across the porous porous /por·ous/ (por´us) penetrated by pores and open spaces. po·rous adj. 1. Full of or having pores. 2. Admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores. border around two years after returning to Afghanistan under a UN-backed repatriation Repatriation The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country. Notes: If you are American, converting British Pounds back to U.S. dollars is an example of repatriation. programme. But there are also reports about Afghan refugees' involvement in militant and anti-social activities, that is why they were being expelled, he added. ajr Copyright E Pajhwok Afghan News. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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