ISLAMABAD: Approximately 60,000 children are born to Afghan refugees every year in Pa
kistan, said a report of United Nations Hig
h Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
It is pertinent to ment
ion here that Pa
kistan has been hosting almost 1.6 million registered Afghan refugees – the large
st refugee population globally, an official of the United Nations Hig
h Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) sa
id.
Since 2002, the UN refugee agency had facilitated the return of 3.8 million registered Afghans from Pa
kistan.