Afghan refugees living in Kurram Agency have been asked to leave the sensitive tribal region on the Pakistan-Afghan border within 48 hours.
| Finally getting the idea, are they? |
 The deadline, coming two days after the expulsion of refugees from the border town of Miranshah in the NWFP on a 24-hour notice, was announced on loudspeakers in mosques across the semi-autonomous area controlled by the federal government.
| "Attention! Attention! All you Afghans! Beat it! That is all!" |
Kurram Agency Assistant Political Agent Nasir Khan Wazir said that refugees who did not abide by the law would be arrested and dealt with accordingly.
| Of course, you gotta catch 'em first... |
Haji Sardar Khan Ghilji, a refugee living in the Kurram Agency, said that several refugee camps were removed from the area before the month of Ramazan. âUp to 200 families, including those who slipped back after repatriation to Afghanistan, are still living in the main town,â he said. In Islamabad, UNHCR spokesman Asif Shahzad said the displaced people who did not want to return home could shift to any other refugee camp inside Pakistan. He pledged that the UN agency would assist them in the process of shifting. |