Our ultimate problem is an intellectual problem...
He was of the view that if we’re able to understand and overcome this problem, issues like extremism, sectarianism and terrorism would be sorted out...
KABUL: Rahim Khan's return to Afghanistan 28 years after fleeing to Pakistan was not the homecoming he had dreamed of...
The 60-year-old is one of a growing number of Afghan refugees making the journey back with trepidation, as militant violence intensifies, yet feeling shunned by their adopted country as relations between the neighbours sour...
MUMBAI: A woman providing education to Afghan refugee girls in Pakistan has been short-listed for a $1 million global award for teaching...
Aqeela Asifi, 49, who battled the conservative mindset and taught a number of female Afghan refugees and local children has been nominated for the Global Teacher Prize given annually by the Varkey Foundation...
PESHAWAR: The United Nations refugee chief on Thursday urged Pakistanis not to blame Afghan refugees for terrorism in their country, amid growing public calls for their deportation and worsening relations between the two neighbours...
5 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan risked becoming a “forgotten” crisis, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called on the international community to invest more funds to help them... ...
Pakistan's claim that the United States forces struck an Afghan refugee camp in Kurram Agency on Wednesday is false, said US Embassy Spokesperson Rick Sinelsine in Pakistan on Thursday...
On Wednesday, Pakistan had condemned a US drone strike deep inside its territory, saying: “Pakistan condemns a drone strike in Kurram Agency carried out by the Resolute Support Mission (RSM) this [Wednesday] morning, which targeted an Afghan refugee...
LAHORE: There is an increasing number of complaints about the city’s garbage problem due to many issues the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) is facing...
The company had recently lost a reputed managing director after he fell out with the Lahore DC on the issue of cleanliness...
PAKISTAN is a unique country on many accounts...
We have an all-powerful army that is synonymous with the ‘ideology of Pakistan’...
KABUL: At the age of just 14, Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has already surmounted legal hurdles preventing 25,000 refugee children from attending school, and cajoled authorities into providing tap water to a camp housing more than 100 families...
Also read: Education is right, not privilege, Malala tells UNAziza's confidence impressed the Mobile Mini Circus for Children (MMCC), an international humanitarian group founded by...
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday ruled that every house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) Afghan refugee camps should be provided its own electricity metre in order to curtail power theft...
A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Dost Muhammad, heard a case regarding the provision of electricity to Afghan refugee camps in the province...
QUETTA: The UNCHR observed the World Refugee Day on Tuesday to express solidarity with Afghan refugees living in Pakistan for the past 30 years...
He called on the world community to help Pakistan ease its additional burden of hosting 1...
BERLIN: Germany has temporarily suspended the group deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers following the Kabul truck bomb attack, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday...
Germany said the previous day it had postponed a scheduled deportation flight of rejected Afghan asylum seekers after the truck bomb killed at least 90 people and wounded hundreds...
MANSEHRA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government with the financial assistance of Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (Safron) would relocate three Afghan refugee camps, coming in the way of Hazara motorway, in Mansehra...
The motorway is being built under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor...
ISLAMABAD: Around 500 refugee families are returning to Afghanistan every day, a United Nations High Commission for Refugee (UNHCR) spokesman said on Sunday...
Around 300 trucks leave Pakistan daily to transport refugees back to Afghanistan...
BERLIN: A 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an axe and a knife attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany on Monday evening, severely wounding four, before he was shot dead by police, the interior minister for the state of Bavaria said...
“The attacker appears to have been a 17-year-old Afghan who has been living in Ochsenfurt for some time,” Herrmann said...
LONDON: A teacher who has dedicated her life to educating Afghan refugee girls, challenging cultural sexism by setting up classes in a makeshift tent, has won a special prize awarded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...
Aqeela Asifi, 49, left Kabul with her family in 1992, and ended up living in the remote refugee settlement of Kot Chandna in the Punjab region of Pakistan, where most girls were excluded...