Tag: refugee

Sometime in mid-August 1947, my grandmother, Abnash Kaur, then about 12 years of age, boarded a train with her family from Lahore in what is now Pakistan. The journey would take her to Kalka, a sleepy Indian town in the foothills of the Himalayas. She would never return to ...

A group of children, aged between 6 and 8, play on a concrete slab in front of the entrance to the Borici refugee camp near the town of Bihac in northwestern Bosnia. They don't have any toys, and simply call the game they are playing "game." They form two ...

GENEVA - The U.N. refugee agency reports the COVID-19 pandemic, violence and insecurity in Afghanistan have discouraged Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran from returning to the homes they fled many years ago. After the fall of the Taliban in 2002, Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran began going ...

The former England and Leicester ace, 59, donated £200 to the student's crowdfunding page after the Zimbabwean student appealed for funds to allow him to continue studying at Liverpool Hope UniversityBBC Match of the Day host Gary Lineker has donated £200 to help a refugee who's on the brink of ...

The desperate refugees crammed into a number of boats moored on the shores of southern Kent, Britain, looked like invaders. Anti-immigrant protesters were seizing on such concerns at the end of last week, when they blockaded the main external road to the port of Dover "to protect Britain's borders". ...

Desperate refugees crammed into cockle-shell boats landing on the shingle beaches of the south Kent coast are easily portrayed as invaders. Anti-immigrant demonstrators were exploiting such fears last weekend as they blockaded the main highway into Dover Port in order “to protect Britain’s borders”. Meanwhile, the home secretary, Priti ...

ISLAMABAD: Much anticipated negotiations between Afghanistan’s warring parties are likely to be “contentious,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Friday, but are the only way forward if Afghans are to find peace after decades of relentless conflict.Pompeo made his comments en route to the Middle Eastern State of ...

Thousands of people urgently require emergency shelter and aid after a fire destroyed Europe’s largest refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos. As the Athens government declared a state of emergency and a delegation of officials rushed to the north-eastern Aegean island, the sheer scale of devastation wrought ...

#Pakistan News Unfortunately, one of the most heartbreaking human tragedies of our day is the refugee crisis in which countless are forced to leave their homes. We are facing refugee crises around many parts of the world as never before seen. In recent years, refugee crises have been increasing ...

ISLAMABAD, PakistanPakistani experts have said the lives of millions of Indian Muslims are at stake amid rising Islamophobia and urged world powers to take notice to prevent another refugee influx from knocking their doors.Speaking at a seminar on Thursday in the capital Islamabad, Pakistan's Information Minister Shibli Faraz said ...