His Excellency Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, inaugurated a new returnee residential township in Paktika Province today.
On the occasion of the ceremony, Mawlawi Hamdullah Nomani, Acting Minister of Urban Development and Housing; the governor and deputy governor of Paktika; scholars; tribal elders; and other provincial officials were present.
His Excellency Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi added that at the time of foreign military occupation, many Afghans migrated to other nations in their bid to save their religious faith, lives, and property.
Now, these compatriots are being coerced back from bordering as well as other states. Nevertheless, the High Commission for Refugee Affairs is currently providing essential services like food, safe drinking water, temporary housing, health, education, and transport.
His Excellency Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi stressed that the present deportation of Afghan refugees from adjacent and other countries is unbecoming and without principle.
He asserted that the current authorities and officials of the Islamic Emirate are putting in all efforts and using all possible means to realize the delivery of better services to forcibly returned nationals so that they can live in dignity, with peace and satisfaction within the country.
It is worth mentioning to see that this township, covering an area of 3,500 jeribs and comprising 1,652 residential plots, is being built in Sharana, the capital of Paktika Province.
The plots will be allocated openly to those returnees who are declared eligible by the High Commission for Refugee Affairs, on overall humanitarian grounds.