Pakistan threatens to evict 100,000 Afghan refugees

Frustrated by a flood of Afghan refugees into the country, Pakistan’s frontier government today threatened to evict 100,000, some of whom have been living in exile for 20 years.

Pakistan threatens to evict 100,000 Afghan refugees

Frustrated by a flood of Afghan refugees into the country, Pakistan’s frontier government today threatened to evict 100,000, some of whom have been living in exile for 20 years.

According to a government official in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province - where an estimated 1.2 million Afghans are living in camps - 100,000 refugees have been ordered out of the camp where they live by July 15.

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