Jejune
02-07-2007, 06:18 PM
Pakistan has announced it will close four Afghan refugee camps in its border provinces by the end of August.
The decision was made by a commission that also includes representatives from Afghanistan and the UN refugee agency.
This is part of an ongoing project to repatriate some 2.5m Afghans who have taken refuge in camps in Pakistan over nearly three decades.
But the Pakistani government has recently been stressing that these camps are also a security risk.
Read the rest here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6340163.stm).
The decision was made by a commission that also includes representatives from Afghanistan and the UN refugee agency.
This is part of an ongoing project to repatriate some 2.5m Afghans who have taken refuge in camps in Pakistan over nearly three decades.
But the Pakistani government has recently been stressing that these camps are also a security risk.
Read the rest here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6340163.stm).