- 1.3M The Afghan refugees obtained registration card test: UNHCR
- Pakistan has been organizing millions of Afghans for five decades.
- Peshawar receives the greatest number of Afghas than any other city.
Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) organizes most of the Afghan citizens residing in the country, who have recently been asked to leave Pakistan before March 31, The news reported.
Pakistan is currently organizing 2.1 million documented Afghans. There are hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghan citizens who also live in Pakistan for decades.
However, most of them returned to their country under a voluntary repatriation plan in 2023.
“Of the total of 2.1 million, 1.3 million Afghan refugees are those who have obtained registration card tests. More than 52% of them are in KP, ”said the spokesman for the High Commission of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR) Qasier Afridi The news.
He added that there were around 800,000 Afghas, who had obtained ACC cards and most of them lived in KP.
Card holders were recorded with the support of UNHCR in 2006, while the ACC card holders were documented in 2017 after the National Action Plan was launched.
Pakistan has been organizing millions of Afghans for about five decades. Hundreds of thousands of them returned to their country in recent years, but even more than 2.1 million live in KP and other provinces.
The Pakistani authorities have established March 31 as the deadline for all illegal Afghans, as well as for those who owned ACC cards to return to their country.
There are tens of thousands of Afghans, who were born in Pakistan and just went to their homeland in their entire lives.
A lot of them care once again as the deadline is quickly approaching during the sacred month.
Peshawar organizes the largest number of Afghan citizens than any other city. Thousands of them are doing their own businesses, while others have been doing work in the city during the last decades. They live in many urban, suburban and rural areas along with the local population.
In 2023, the Government had established the deadline on October 31 only for unregistered foreigners, after which a large number of undocumented Afghans returned to their homeland through Torkham and other border crossings.
Special camps were established in Chamkani, Nowshera and other districts of the country for those who voluntarily return to Afghanistan.
No measures were taken during the previous trip against the Afghan, who had cards for or ACC, as well as valid visas.
In addition, the government had prevented the authorities from moving against those, whose cases were in process with UNHCR and planned to go to a third country due to a serious threat to their lives in Afghanistan.
