MONITORING (SW) – Hundreds of Afghan refugees in Islamabad took to the streets for safe and dignified migration process through their pending appeals at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Pakistan.
More than 500 Afghan refugees protested on Monday, April 18 in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Islamabad, Pakistan.
In an interview with Salam Watandar, some of the protesters said that they had protested in front of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) over their pending cases.
The protesters say they are facing economic problems and lack of space, and their problems are increasing day by day.
They added that they have been living in misery for months now and they are having a hard time. The protesters insist that they will set up a protest tent in front of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees until their demands are met.
The protesters, who include journalists, civil society activists, prosecutors, lawyers and advisers to a number of former government ministers who fled to Pakistan after the fall of the previous government, are calling on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to register, distribute immigration cards and accelerate the whole process.
Thousands of Afghans had fled to Pakistan to travel to a third country since the fall of the previous government, but they complained that the work of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been slow.
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