2.7m Afghan refugees in Pakistan

Source: Dawn

Date: 28 Jul, 2010

ISLAMABAD, July 27: The Senate was informed on Tuesday that around 2.7 million Afghan displaced persons were still living in Pakistan out of whom only 1.7 million were registered.

Responding to queries during the question hour, the minister for states and frontier regions said all the Afghan refugees would be repatriated to their country by 2012. A tripartite commission set up under an agreement between the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan and the UNHCR is working for return of the refugees.

 In response to another question, the house was informed that 786 persons were appointed in BPS-1 to BPS-20 in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the basis of provincial quotas between 2007 and 2009. Of these, 145 were appointed on regular and the remaining on contractual basis.

The appointments were: 459 from Punjab, 149 from Sindh, 112 from Balochistan, 58 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and eight from other areas.
The house was also informed that Nadra had foiled 90,000 attempts by applicants to make dual or fake identity cards during the last 10 years. As many as

153 officials were also arrested in this connection.

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