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The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa state of Pakistan connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) said it has unopen down arsenic galore arsenic 42 camps that had housed Afghan refugees for implicit 40 years.
Millions of Afghan refugees crossed into Pakistan aft the Soviet penetration of Afghanistan successful 1979. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, being a bordering province, hosted the largest fig of these refugees for decades.
Authorities support that the closure of the astir 45-year-old exile camps aims to streamline the strategy of exile residence and registration successful the state and to guarantee the elimination of amerciable and unregulated campy residents.
Official sources said connected Wednesday (December 17) that the process of closure of the camps was carried retired successful 2 phases.
In the archetypal phase, 5 exile camps were closed, portion the remaining 37 camps located crossed the state were closed successful the 2nd signifier connected Tuesday.
The provincial authorities has duly informed the national authorities astir the latest developments, the sources said.
The superior nonsubjective down the closure of the camps was to instrumentality the repatriation of Afghan refugees to its logical conclusion, said officials.
Deployment of constabulary and different instrumentality enforcement agencies was ensured during the closure drive, and enactment against unregistered Afghan refugees successful enactment with authorities argumentation was taken.
Following the shutdown, the voluntary repatriation process has besides gained momentum, with much than 3,00,000 refugees preparing their instrumentality to Afghanistan.
The officials described the closure of these exile camps arsenic a important argumentation milestone successful managing exile affairs and restoring administrative bid successful the province.
