QUETTA, May 17: Tehsil Nazim of Qila Abdullah Hamidullah Achakzai has urged the government to stop security forces’ action in the Jungle Piralizai camp area that claimed a number of lives on Wednesday.

He claimed that 95 per cent of people in the camp were local and that most of the refugees had already gone to Afghanistan.

Addressing a press conference at the press club here on Wednesday, he claimed that he had told the representatives of UNHCR, Afghanistan officials and Qila Abdullah district administration and security forces officials that only three per cent Afghan refugees were left in the Piralizai refugee camp.

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