{"id":84000,"date":"2017-02-08T07:57:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/pakistan-extends-afghan-refugees-stay\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T07:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:57:13","slug":"pakistan-extends-afghan-refugees-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/pakistan-extends-afghan-refugees-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan extends Afghan refugees stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/feb\/8\/afghanistan-refugees-pakistan.jpe1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>KABUL (SW): The federal cabinet of Pakistan has granted extension to the stay of registered Afghan refugees in the country, permitting them to live in Pakistan till December 31, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maryam Aurangzeb, Minister of Information and Broadcasting of Pakistan, has said refugees who do not have permits cannot travel to Pakistan without a valid visa. &ldquo;The cabinet has ordered the Ministry of Interior to register undocumented Afghan refugees by December&rdquo;, added Aurangzeb. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Omar Zakhilwal, Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, has expressed Afghan refugees have played significant role in Pakistan&rsquo;s economy. Based on the information, the federal cabinet of Pakistan has requested special visa for students, businessmen and those seeking medical treatment. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Previously the government of Pakistan had given 31<sup>st<\/sup> March, 2017 as deadline to the Afghan refugees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The federal cabinet of Pakistan has granted extension to the stay of registered Afghan refugees in the country, permitting them to live in Pakistan till December 31, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}