Call for enacting law to solve refugees’ problem

Published November 30, 2018
QUETTA: Afghan Consul Gen­eral Wahidullah Mah­mand speaks at the seminar on Thursday.—PPI
QUETTA: Afghan Consul Gen­eral Wahidullah Mah­mand speaks at the seminar on Thursday.—PPI

QUETTA: Speakers at a seminar on Afghan refugees have called for enacting a law for refugees and internally displaced persons in the country.

Addressing the seminar, organised by NGO Society for Human Rights and Prisoners Aid (SHARP) at a hotel on Thursday, former senator Farhatullah Babar said that it was very disturbing that successive governments in the country could not adopted a clear policy on the issue of refugees.

The seminar was ad­­dressed by Senator Afrasiab Khattak and Asghar Khan Achakzai of Awami National Party, Senator Usman Kakar of Pakh­tun­khwa Milli Awami Party, Afghan Consul Gen­eral in Quetta Wahidullah Mah­mand, Agha Hassan Baloch of Balochistan National Party and SHARP CEO Liaquat Banori.

Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2018

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