The repatriation would be carried out jointly by the Afghan Commissionerate NWFP and UNHCR, he added.
Each family, which opted for voluntary return, would be given a repatriation package —Rs6,000 as transportation charges, 300 kilogrammes of wheat and a plastic sheet, the spokesman said.
He clarified that a UNHCR team issued documents to the genuine repatriate refugees at verification points. The papers would help DPs’ families receive the package inside Afghanistan at Jalalabad and Khost districts, he added.
Answering a question, the spokesman said four verification points — one each at Nawa Pass in Bajaur Agency, Takhta Baig in Khyber Agency, Alizai in Kurram Agency and Ghulam Khan in North Waziristan Agency — had been set up for the repatriate refugees
In reply to another question, he said that unofficially 1,547 families comprising 12,790 individuals had repatriated voluntarily via Torkham border since December 5 last till date. Under the unofficial repatriation no package was offered, he added.
He also said that 12,000 DPs had been transferred by the UNHCR from Jalozai camp to the newly-setup refugee camps in Kotkay in Bajaur Agency while 2,000 shifted to Shalman Camp in Khyber Agency.
Similarly, 513 families consisting of 3,000 individuals had been shifted to Kurram Agency, he added.—APP