‘Working on plan to facilitate traveling of stranded Afghans’

KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan has been working on a strategy to facilitate the traveling of Afghan refugees stranded in Afghanistan due to restriction imposed in the aftermath of coronavirus pandemic, the Afghan Consulate General in Peshawar said on Saturday.

The statement comes following a meeting between Afghan Consulate General Najibullah Ahmadzai and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in Peshawar, the diplomatic mission said in a statement.

Both sides discussed issues concerning commerce, trade routs and Afghans stranded in Pakistan, with Ahmadzai asking the chief minister to provide more facilities to Afghan refugees and facilitate trade between the two countries.

Mahmood Khan assured Ahmadzai that Pakistan wanted to strengthen trade relationship with Afghanistan. He assured that Afghans living in Pakistan were brothers and would never differentiate between them. He added that Afghans stranded in Pakistan would be repatriated through a proper strategy.

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