Report in TOLOnews Online, Dec 25, 2023 at 4:50 PM
As the weather is getting colder, authorities have announced an increase in facilities at Spin Boldak camp for immigrants returning from Pakistan.
Officials said that they accelerated the transfer of migrants to their main areas, and warm rooms and other necessary facilities have been provided for them in the temporary camp.
“The services are delivered properly and the distribution plan for heaters and coal has been prepared for the winter,” said Noorulddin Turabi, deputy of the Afghan Red Crescent Society.
“Facilitation has been made for the migrants for the winter, which is done with the help of foreign organizations,” said Hamdullah Turabi, deputy of the Information and Culture department in Kandahar.
The process of forced deportation of Afghan immigrants from Pakistan is still going on through the Spin Boldak crossing, where hundreds of people return to the country every day.
Returning migrants said that Afghans in Pakistan are still being harassed by the security forces of that country and their property is forcibly being taken from them.
“They didn’t let us roam around the markets,” said Sharfuddin, a refugee.
“We took our children out of that country, and we left Afghanistan because of our honor,” said Ghamai, a refugee.
Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce and Investment of Spin Boldak said that until the end of the process of returning Afghan refugees, food is provided for free in the camp.
“We still haven’t stopped helping the returnees, and the merchants and industrialists of Spin Boldak are ready to cooperate no matter how many immigrants return to their homeland every day,” said Mohammad Idris, deputy of the chamber.
“Bread is distributed to 2,500 to 700 migrants in the morning and to the same number in the evening, and in one day and night we distribute bread to 6,000 migrants,” said Ahmad Shah Khan, a Kandahar trader.
Since the first of the November of the year, more than 135,000 people have returned to the country through the Spin Boldak crossing.’
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