Afridi urges UNHCR to apprise world about Pakistan's hospitality to Afghan Refugees.

PESHAWAR -- State Minister for State and Frontier Region (SAFRON) Shehryar Afridi has urged United Nation Higher Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to tell world that Pakistan was the best host country for refugees.

He said during inauguration of cold chain warehouse, first ever vaccine storage facility in Khyber Pakhtukwa here on Thursday.

UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, George Okoth Obbo, Minister for Health Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dr. Hisham Inamullah Khan,n KP Minister for Finance, Taimoor Salim Jhagra, Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Sultan Muhammad and others UNHCR officials were present on the occasion.

Shehryar Afridi said that millions of Afghan refugees were living in Pakistan but unfortunately the image of Pakistan is not good in world so the UNHCR should portray the role of country in help and support of refugees.

He said that Pakistan always supported Afghan refugees in all cadre including health, education, business and others.

He said that 1.4 million Afghan Refugees are registered while 68 percent are living out of camps in Pakistan and 60,000 visit Pakistan per month via visa. 0.84 million have Afghan Citizen Cards while 1.4 million have Prof of Registration, Afridi added.

50,000 Afghan students are getting their education here via scholarship, he went on to say.

Shehryar Afridi said that Pakistan helped Afghan Refugees in exemplary manner adding that Prime Minister Imran Khan has assured of raise the issues of refugees at all international forums.

Earlier, Mr. UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Operations George Okoth Obbo said that he was pleased to learn that UNHCR has built vaccine storage facilities in both the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces which are hosting the largest numbers of refugees.

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