ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The government on Thursday resumed registration of Afghan refugees in the country. Officials said that the registration process started in the October last was scheduled to end on December 31.

However, the date has been extended till January 19, in view of the upsurge in the number of Afghans coming for registration.

About 26,000 Afghans are getting registered daily and the number so far has passed 1.3 million.

A total of 864,945 refugees have been registered in the NWFP, 233,927 in Balochistan, 133,643 in Punjab and Islamabad, 73,508 in Sindh, and more than 6,000 in Azad Kashmir.

The registration process will resume in 35 sites across the country, including 18 in the NWFP, nine in Balochistan, six in Punjab and two in Sindh.

Afghan refugees have been advised to approach designated centres where they had been counted in the March 2005 census with their family members to prove that they were present in Pakistan at the time of the census.—APP