ISLAMABAD – The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) hasdeclared Pakistan as the largest country for giving shelter to refugees inthe world and most of the refugees were belonging to Afghanistan.
Pakistan was hosting the largest number of refugees in the country and asmany as 1.45 million were hailed from Afghanistan, as per reported by UNHCR.
Pakistan unconditionally hosted millions of refugees and provided bestpossible facilities to these affected people of different countriesespecially Afghan citizens when the war was on peak in it and still 1.45million were living in Pakistan, the report further added.
Pakistan continued hosted Afghan refugees for more than three decades, thereport said.
Similarly, the voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan totheir own country was also the largest in the world, the report stated.
Since March 2002, UNHCR has facilitated the return of approximately 4.1million registered Afghans from Pakistan, it added.