Staff Reporter:
QUETTA:
Governor Balochistan, Abdul Wali Khan Kakar on Tuesday said the province shared schools, hospitals, transports and shops with Afghan refugees.
He expressed these views while addressing a function organized in connection with world refugees day in Quetta. He said that the problem of refugees is definitely a global problem, after the war in Afghanistan in 1978, people started coming here from 1980.
Malik Wali Kakar said that millions of people migrated from Afghanistan to Balochistan and then went to different countries of the world. He said that no one tried to know what happened to the people of Balochistan and Khyber Pkahtoonkhwa.
No steps taken to rehabilitate Afghan refugees
He said that the difficult conditions we are going through are known only to the country and especially to certain areas, Afghan refugees are our brothers, but since they migrated here, no effective steps were taken to support them.
He said that 10,000 to 25,000 rupees are given to the families of the refugees, but our schools, hospitals, markets and trade have been affected.
UNHCR fails to support Afghan refugees: Governor Kakar
Governor Balochistan said that the education of our boys and girls have also been badly affected. Until today, not a single rupee has been spent by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the local population.
“We know that the refugees are poor”, he mentioned. He said that we were already weak, but the way they imposed on our business, our land, livestock has also been destroyed, on which UNHCR did not cooperate with us.
He said that the migrants are moving to other countries from here, where should we go? Our youth are dying in boats in connection with employment in different countries, the Governor lamented.
