[ad_1] GENEVA: An estimated 2.5 million refugees worldwide will need to be resettled next year, the UN said Tuesday, at a time when the United States but also other nations are shrinking resettlement access. UNHCR, the United Nations’ refugee agency, said the needs were down slightly from this year, when around 2.9 million refugees are … Read more
[ad_1] LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has asserted that being a refugee is not a crime. “It is a cruel compulsion. No one becomes a refugee of one’s own desire. One has to leave one’s home, one’s soil to save one’s life,” she stated in her message on World Refugee Day. She highlighted, … Read more
[ad_1] Listen to article The Foreign Office on Thursday clarified that Iran has not sought any military assistance from Pakistan nor made any request to relocate Iranian refugees to Pakistani territory, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Tel Aviv. Speaking at the weekly press briefing, FO spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan confirmed that no formal request had been … Read more