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@A-Team -- I told you that the Afghan government won't make any serious efforts to accommodate these poor people -- they will be left to rot in the cold winter.
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Afghanistan will face a grim winter of starvation and death on its eastern frontier, particularly among women and children, unless donors urgently find the money to fund emergency relief for more than half a million refugees who are returning from Pakistan, a United Nations official has warned.
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“If the donors don’t step up, then there’s going to be a humanitarian crisis in the border districts of Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Rudakubana said. “If we don’t respond now, it’s going to be catastrophic.”
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The surprise exodus from Pakistan threatens to overwhelm aid agencies that are already overstretched, with the WFP estimating that around 600,000 Afghans will have returned by the end of the year – representing the biggest repatriation since millions of refugees chose to voluntarily return from Pakistan and Iran in the years following the fall of the Talibanin 2001.
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“We spent three decades there, but we were pushed out in a very bad way,” said Bashir Gul, who had worked in Pakistan as a baker. “You can imagine how we feel.”
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Afghanistan will face a grim winter of starvation and death on its eastern frontier, particularly among women and children, unless donors urgently find the money to fund emergency relief for more than half a million refugees who are returning from Pakistan, a United Nations official has warned.
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“If the donors don’t step up, then there’s going to be a humanitarian crisis in the border districts of Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Rudakubana said. “If we don’t respond now, it’s going to be catastrophic.”
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The surprise exodus from Pakistan threatens to overwhelm aid agencies that are already overstretched, with the WFP estimating that around 600,000 Afghans will have returned by the end of the year – representing the biggest repatriation since millions of refugees chose to voluntarily return from Pakistan and Iran in the years following the fall of the Talibanin 2001.
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“We spent three decades there, but we were pushed out in a very bad way,” said Bashir Gul, who had worked in Pakistan as a baker. “You can imagine how we feel.”