Pakistan Afghan Refugees: Challenges Faced by Management and Repatriation Issues in Pakistan
Mamoona Khalid, Fozia Shaheen

Abstract
Refugee’s crisis has ascended one of the prime challenges for international community and it augments international focus and expertise dealing with this issue. The Afghan evacuee is the leading encounter since more than three decades for Pakistan. It is a need of time, that Pakistan should competently tackle the Afghan expatriates defies both at national and on international scale besides the deficient expertise and sustainable economic conditions. This study discusses historical background of inflow Afghan refugees’, issues currently being faced, existing management challenges and repatriation problems of Afghan refugees’ in Pakistan. This research further discourse existing national and international legal protection framework for Afghan expatriates in Pakistan. The study edify that currently absences of inclusive legal instruments and border management policy is one of detrimental challenge of refugees to Pakistan on many faces; from security and border management to regulation of labour and migration. The study ends with comprehensive policy recommendations on the substance of Afghan refugees’ in Pakistan.

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