The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today that it had moved to a refugee camp in southern Pakistan about 1,000 Afghans who were part of a larger group that had unexpectedly arrived earlier this week in the no-man's land border area after fleeing bombardments in Afghanistan.
Recognizing that the public health situation in Afghanistan was in a desperate state, the United Nations chief envoy for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, today said he hoped the international community would pay attention to this issue.
Thousands of women in Kabul have eagerly welcomed a large-scale United Nations drive to immunize Afghan children against measles - a major yet preventable killer disease among the young, UN officials said today.
Reversing the recent trend of Afghans returning to their country across international borders, thousands of new refugees from Afghanistan are seeking to enter Pakistan, a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.
