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Hafizullah Husseinkhel, who fled from Afghanistan in 2014 after receiving death threats from the Taliban, said he felt “betrayed” and “terrified” after the government declined to grant his wife entry to the UK.
Pakistan hosted some 1.5 million registered refugees, one of the largest such populations in the world, according to the United Nations refugee agency.
“A traditional wedding would have cost us at least 200,000 to 250,000 Afghanis ($2,800 to $3,600), but this time it will be between 10,000 and 15,000 Afghanis,” he said.
Around 3.2 million children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan by the end of this year, with 1 million of them at risk of dying as temperatures drop, a World Health Organisation spokesperson said on Friday.
“It will be done in phases,” the foreign office spokeswoman said. She added the process would follow an orderly manner, in contrast to what she called some misconceptions that all of them would just be expelled in one go.
Islamabad has issued an order to 1.7 million Afghans it says are living in the country illegally to leave by Nov.1, or be deported.
The first of these flights, carrying 200 Afghan refugees, is set to depart from Islamabad to the United Kingdom on Oct. 26 (Thursday), with special arrangements made at Islamabad Airport for this purpose.
Just over 129,000 have fled from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the provincial home department said, while a total of 38,100 have crossed through Chaman in Balochistan province, border officials there said.
The new crossings were set up at the Afghan border in southwestern Balochistan province in addition to the main crossing in Chaman district, said Jan Achakzai, information minister for the provincial caretaker government.
A suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into the convoy on Sunday in a tribal region near Bannu district, close to the Afghan border, the army said. Seven people were wounded, including military officials