ISLAMABAD, Dec 13 Kyodo Afghanist...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 13 Kyodo

Afghanistan's Minister for Refugee and Repatriation Enayatullah Nazari said Friday the respond of Afghan refugees is count uponed to be gradual as the nation is still mired in difficult economic and other problems

Nazari told a pres conversation in Islamabad that the international community has even now to provide committed economic aid and this would also affect the repatriation of Afghan refugees

''If they do not abide by dint of their commitments then I am enduring that there will be a division of problems regarding the refugee who are returning,'' Nazari said.

Representatives of Afghan refugee in Pakistan told Nazari upon Thursday that Afghan refugee are unwilling to recur due to poor security and a lack of employ opportunities in Afghanistan.

Nazari said a trilateral agreement with Pakistan and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee that was awaited to be concluded during his instant visit would be signed nearest month in Geneva.

Nazari gave no reason for the delay.

subject to the proposed agreement, an estimated 400000 Afghan refugee would be repatriated to Afghanistan each year within three years of the agreement.

The repatriation of Afghan refugee picked up after the establishment of the Hamid Karzai conduct in December last year unless nearly 1.5 million Afghan refugee are still residing in Pakistan.

Nazari denied media reports that about of the Pakistani nationals jailed in Afghanistan were sent to India and said negotiations for an orderly repatriation of the Pakistani prisoners in Afghanistan are in progres with the Pakistani government

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