Efforts to Improve Refugee Situation; Emergency Meetings and Expand Services in Provinces

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Kabul: Maulvi Abdul Kabir, Acting Minister of Refugees Affairs, in a meeting with Qari Zainul Abidine Abid, Governor of Nuristan, announced the initiation of serious measures to improve services for returning Afghan refugees.

 

Maulvi Abdul Kabir said that the Ministry of Refugees and Returnees Affairs has initiated the necessary measures to improve services for returning refugees and resolve their problems, and this process will be further expanded in the future.

 

In this meeting, the Governor of Nuristan also emphasized the need to increase cooperation and coordination between local departments to address the problems of refugee families.

 

Qari Abid said in the meeting that the province is increasing its efforts to coordinate and cooperate effectively with the returning refugees and assured that effective programs will be launched to solve the problems of these families in coordination with the relevant departments.

 

In this regard, another emergency meeting was held in Laghman province under the chairmanship of Sheikh Sher Ahmad Haqqani, the governor of the province, with the presence of representatives of local departments to provide immediate accommodation and services for the newly arrived refugees. The governor of Laghman said in the meeting: “We organized this meeting to provide immediate accommodation opportunities for the families who were recently forcibly expelled from Pakistan.”

 

In addition, Maulvi Ghulam Rahman Bilal, the head of the Refugee Affairs Department in Laghman, announced the readiness of the department to use all available facilities to provide services to the returning families. Following this, officials of various departments also pledged that they would cooperate in the areas of security, shelter, health services, tents and other basic needs.

 

At the end of the Laghman provincial meeting, a six-member committee headed by the head of the refugee affairs was formed to address the problems of refugees in a more coordinated manner and provide better services.

 

According to recent reports, the process of forced deportation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan is still ongoing, and in the past few days alone, more than 11,000 refugees have returned to the country. The Ministry of Refugees had previously announced that it would expand humanitarian services and emergency assistance to returning refugees across the country.