Mansehra's 2,700 Afghan families face forced repatriation.

MANSEHRA -- The Commissionerate of Afghan Refugees has asked over 2,700 Afghan families settled in urban parts of Mansehra district for voluntary return before July 1 to prevent forced repatriation.

'We have given June 30, as the last date for repatriation to over 2700 Afghan families settled in urban areas of the district and if they didn't follow the government order , we would forcibly send them to their country,' commissionerate administrator Abdullah Khan told reporters here on Monday.

He said $200 would be paid to each of those Afghan families.

The administrator said the commissionerate was also relocating over 1,050 Afghan families from two camps to keep them away from the sites of the initiatives being executed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project.

He said the government had asked the refugees settled at Barari and Ichrian camps to either relocate themselves to camps in Khaki, Mansehra district or Haripur district, or return, but only 30 families went to Afghanistan voluntarily.

'As Mansehra-Besham section of the Hazara Expressway is set to become functional, all 1,050 Afghan families settled in Barari and Ichrian camps will be relocated to Khaki camp within a couple of days,' he said.

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