UNHCR: Mass returns push Afghanistan to brink as aid dwindles

UNHCR: Mass returns push Afghanistan to brink as aid dwindles

At a UNHCR centre near the Torkham border, an Afghan family recently returned from Pakistan receives a health consultation. © UNHCR/Oxygen Empire Media Production This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR’s Afghanistan Representative Arafat Jamal – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and partners are responding to the mass return of Afghan…