Source: AP
By : Munir Ahmed
Afghan refugees were flowing over the border from a Pakistani battle zone Tuesday after officials accused them of links with Taliban militants and ordered them out, police said.
Pakistani authorities have told Afghans living in the Bajur tribal region to go back to their homeland and leave an area where troops have […]

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Source: BBC News 
Pakistan needs to revise a plan to repatriate 2.4 million Afghan refugees by the end of 2009, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has said.
Kilian Kleinschmidt, UNHCR assistant representative in Pakistan, told the Associated Press news agency the plan was unworkable and could backfire.
Pakistan said it still hopes most of the refugees will […]

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Source: UN News Centre
Hundreds of Afghan refugees set to leave Peshawar in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) to return to their homeland have been left stranded after local tribal disputes shut down a key road between the two countries, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
Over 360 Afghan families that had been processed […]

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