KOHAT, Sept 19: The repatriation of the remaining 100 Afghan families from Kurram Agency, which was stopped because of elections in Afghanistan, will resume on Wednesday after the re-opening of the iris centre.

An official of the Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees said on Monday that the authorities wanted to complete the process as early as possible as the deadline for the repatriation from the tribal area had been extended twice.

The authorities said all the 22 refugee camps in the area had been demolished and these 100 families of farmers were living with local landowners.

The administration had turned down the request of those refugees for permission to stay so that they could collect their salaries from the landowners and asked them to leave.

The 70,000 refugees repatriated from the agency during the past month had been lodged in tents across the border by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and efforts were under way to provide them permanent shelter, the official said.