Pakistan hosting largest number of refugees: UNHCR

ISLAMABAD, Mar 14 (APP):The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has declared Pakistan as the largest country for giving shelter to refugees in the world and most of them refugees were belonging to Afghanistan.
As per the UNHCR report, Pakistan hosting the largest number of refugees in the country and as many as 1.45 million were hailing from Afghanistan.
Report added that Pakistan unconditionally hosted the millions of refugees and provides best possible facilities to these affected people of different countries especially Afghanistan citizens when the war on the peak in its country and still 1.45 million are living in Pakistan.
Pakistan continued hosted Afghan refugees for more than three decades, it added. Similarly, the voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan to their own country was also the largest in the world, report stated.
Since March 2002, UNHCR has facilitated the return of approximately 4.1 million registered Afghans from Pakistan, it added.