Pakistan: 1,500 Afghan Refugees Set To Head Home From Pakistan

Record ID: 4225

  • Title: Pakistan: 1,500 Afghan Refugees Set To Head Home From Pakistan
  • Date: 17th September 2000
  • Summary: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, has seen off a convoy of some 1,500 Afghan refugees who were headed home from Pakistan. Ogata saw off the convoy of trucks carrying Afghan 200 families September 17 as she made a visit to the camp outside the southern city of Quetta in Pakistan. After inspecting the refugee camp Ogata said: "We really have a lot of requests for (them to) return and my office is always full with applications. But what we want to do is to make sure that the return will be sustainable. Also that these refugees don't come back and for that we will have to be a little bit sure. " Many repatriated Afghan refugees return to Pakistan after staying for some time in Afghanistan, a country they left during two decades of conflict, poverty and acute hardships.
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  • Location: PAKISTAN QUETTA
  • Reuters ID: LDL0012DUIOV3
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