ISLAMABAD
Pakistan Special Representative for Afghanistan Ambassador Asif Durrani is representing Pakistan at the second Global Refugee Forum (GRF) being held in Geneva, the Foreign Office said Thursday.
The FM spokesperson Mumtaz Zehra Baloch said GRF brings together the international community to discuss global refugee situations and examine joint pathways for burden and responsibility sharing for refugees.
“As a major refugee-hosting country for over four decades, Pakistan is among the pioneer co-conveners of the GRF,” she told her weekly briefing in Islamabad. She said Ambassador Durrani will underline that international burden sharing and responsibility needs to be more proportionate, equitable and predictable.
He will also call for continued international responsibility in supporting Afghan refugees, one of the oldest protracted refugee situations. Pakistani envoy is attending the meeting after the government took a decision to October to deport illegal Afghans.
Pakistani minister have also stated that the registered Afghans will also be asked to leave the country in the next phase.
