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Pakistan’s Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan, who is also the Minister of States and Frontier Regions Amir Muqam on Sunday called on United Nations agencies to fulfil their commitment to repatriating Afghan refugees or shifting them to another country as well as resolving the issues of hosting them.
The Nation reports that while addressing the Afghan refugees during his visit to Commissionerate Afghan Refugees Sindh, he said that the people of third-world countries were given shelter in Pakistan, and it was promised that they would be shifted to another country. He said that they must be moved on a war footing basis.
He warned that Afghans living in the country illegally would have to be deported. Mr Amir Muqam said around 3 million Afghanis had been hosted in the country for many years and added, “It’s a fact that you will have to go.”
