Feb 19 , 2016
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60,000 Afghan refugee children born in Pakistan every year: UNHCR
INPISLAMABAD - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in a report has said that approximately 60,000 children are born to Afghan refugees every year in Pakistan.
In accordance with the report, it is estimated that approximately 180,000 children have not been registered since 2010 due to lack of awareness of the importance of birth certificates and also long distances to registration centres.
A senior official of UNHCR said that Pakistan is hosting almost 1.6 million registered Afghan refugees – the largest protracted refugee population globally.
Since 2002, the UN refugee agency had facilitated the return of 3.8 million registered Afghans from Pakistan.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk