Repatriation of Afghan refugees: Govt to go all out efforts to provide safe instrument - CM
PESHAWAR: The NWFP Caretaker Chief
Minister Shams ul Mulk has said that the government would go all out to
provide a safe instrument to make the repatriation of Afghan Refugees to
their country sustainable. The process of repatriation of Afghan Refugees
to their country should be humane supported by a well thought out strategy
so that the warm and friendly sentiments of the Afghan Refugees should
not die down, he added. He was presiding over a meeting to strategize the
repatriation of Afghan Refugees to their country here at Chief Minister's
House, Peshawar on Saturday morning. Chief Commissioner Afghan Refugees
Abdur Rauf Khattak, Secretary Home Badshah Gul Wazir, Special Secretary
Tipu Mohabat Khan and Afghan Commissioner attended. The meeting was told
about the Afghan repatriation strategy approved by the federal cabinet.
The meeting was briefed about the arrangements that had already been taken
as a part of the repatriation strategy. The meeting sought the recommendations
to facilitate the repatriation process. The chief minister said that the
level of arrangements for the repatriation should be up to the mark and
the entire process should be humane and friendly so that the sacrifices
offered by the people and government of NWFP should not drain. Whatever
good we can do must be done and all the shareholders of the burden must
have to fulfill their responsibility, he added. The chief minister said
that we supported the Afghan Refugees for almost 30 years and their backing
home should not provide a space for anti Pakistan elements to create anti
Pakistan sentiments and exploit the situation to the hilt and thus harm
the sentiments of Pakistan and its people which they espoused for their
Afghan brethren. The NWFP Caretaker Chief Minister Shams ul Mulk said,
the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan have some common bonds based on
religion, brotherhood, and neighborhood. The NWFP Caretaker Chief Minister
Shams ul Mulk suggested that the planners must plan the repatriation process
realistically adding that all the shareholders of the burden must concentrate
on the infrastructure development inside Afghanistan. "Afghanistan
should have a net work of schools, vocational training centers, irrigation,
roads, communication, health, and other facilities so that the burden of
migrated refuges could be converted into an asset who would personally
contribute to the reconstruction of Afghanistan. However, the NWFP Caretaker
Chief Minister Shams ul Mulk said, the reconstruction process should be
accelerated," he added. The chief minister said, we must be magnanimous
and should go with open mind to facilitate the repatriated refugees in
their home. It was not an easy task but we must find out reasonable solution
to this gigantic task. "The reconstruction of Afghanistan was in the
interest of the entire region as it would bring peace and development to
the entire region", the NWFP Caretaker Chief Minister Shams ul Mulk
mentioned.
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