QUETTA, Aug 22: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Wednesday announced that it would restore relief assistance for over 30,000 Afghan refugees living in Mohammad Khail camp, 130km south-west of Quetta.

The UNHCR had suspended assistance for refugees at the camp two moths ago after looting of relief goods and attack on a warehouse.

Afghan Refugees Organization Commissioner Mumtaz Raja announced on behalf of the UNHCR at a gathering with the DPs elders at the camp that assistance there would be restarted within a week. He said assistance would not be extended to the refugees in Quetta.

He said the UNHCR wanted to ascertain the number of refugees in the camp to provide relief to deserving Afghans and had sent a team in this regard but the refugees and their elders did not cooperate and manhandled some members of the team. He said the assistance was being restored after assurance by the elders that such incidents would not be repeated.