ISLAMABAD, Aug. 7 Kyodo The offic...

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 7 Kyodo

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) in Islamabad suspended the repatriation of Afghan refugee in succession Tuesday after an Afghan man suspected of fraud locate himself on fire and incited a concourse to throw stones at the UN staff.

The UN refugee agency said the Afghan man lighted his clothes after UNHCR officials refused to proces his application for repatriation to Afghanistan onward grounds that he received refugee aid the previous day.

Afghan refugee receive one-time cash assistance, ration and basic household tools at the time of repatriation, and there have been reports that about repatriated Afghan refugees return to Pakistan to consider probable repatriation aid.

The UNHCR said in a pres release that the Afghan refugee bring forward a match to his clothes after pouring petroleum on himself. He later enjoin out the flames from dousing himself in a nearby plash of water and incited the multitude who hurled stones at the UN personnel processing the repatriation of Afghan refugees

The UNHCR said repatriation work would take back Wednesday with additional police protection.

According to the UNHCR pres release, the UNHCR office had proceedinged 250,420 Afghan families consisting of 1354863 individuals for repatriation to Afghanistan as of Monday, while 57788 families had been move rounded away for making fraudulent claims.

The UNHCR said the number of Afghan refugee seeking repatriation from Pakistan was more than three times the original number awaited for all of 2002, forcing a reallocation of UNHCR capitals from other programs.

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