September 21, 2007

Overview

UN Security Council extends Afghan security mission for another year

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday (September 19) overwhelmingly voted to extend the mandate of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan currently led by NATO for another year beyond October 13, 2007.  The Council adopted resolution 1776 (2007) under Chapter VII of the UN Charter with 14 votes in favor and none against.  The Russian Federation abstained from the vote.  The resolution also called on the member nations to contribute staff, equipment and funding to strengthen ISAF and to make it more effective.  It also urged ISAF to work in close consultation with the Afghan government, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, and the US-led coalition also known as Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in the implementation of the force mandate.  Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer said in an interview yesterday (Thursday, September 20), "There are 40 countries participating in the NATO mission in Afghanistan (ISAF).  And nobody can leave, nobody will leave."  He said he did not think the Netherlands will pull out of Afghanistan "single-handedly." His comments come amid reports of a number of NATO nations being skittish about keeping troops in Afghanistan in the face of rising violence that has killed more than 4,000 people this year alone. 

Dozens dead in violence in Afghanistan’s south and northwest

Dozens of suspected militants and civilians were killed in violence across Afghansitan’s south and northwest this week.  An intense military campaign by Afghan, NATO and US-led coalition forces against Taliban insurgents is currently under way in the country’s south and southeast. The US-led coalition forces claim to have killed 40 suspected Taliban militants in Garmsher (also spelled Garmshir) district in southern Helmand province early this morning (Friday, September 21). At least 24 people were killed in violence in Afghanistan's northwestern Badghis province on Wednesday (September 19).  According to provincial governor Mohammad Ashraf Nasiri, fighting broke out after dozens of Taliban fighters attacked a police post in Bala Murghab district.  He said the ensuing gun battle that lasted three hours left at least 20 militants dead and another nine wounded.  He said four Afghan policemen were also killed in the clash.  Meanwhile, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) acknowledged today that six Afghan civilians were killed in an earlier military operation on Wednesday (September 19) in Gereshk district in Helmand. Elsewhere, Afghan security forces killed three militants and wounded and arrested nine others in an operation in central Wardak province. 

Taliban to cooperate with UN-led polio vaccination campaign in southern Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents are pledging to cooperate with a UN-backed polio vaccination campaign in the country's four restive provinces in the south. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), "We will fully help the vaccination teams to carry out their campaign and (they are) not to be hurt by anyone as all our friends have been told to provide a safe environment for the vaccinators."  The comments come a day after the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) appealed for three days of calm during the vaccination campaign.  The campaign is being undertaken in four southern provinces - Helmand, Uruzgan, Farah and Kandahar.  Dr. Abdullah Fahim, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Health, told DPA that two zones in which the polio virus had been recently found have been singled out for the vaccination campaign, adding that access to these zones was hindered during the previous vaccination campaign due to insecurity. He said a similar two-day campaign will be launched on September 24 for the three eastern provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar and Laghman.  Meanwhile, NATO-led forces on Wednesday (September 19) launched a major offensive against the Taliban in southern Helmand province.  It remains unclear what impact the fresh military offensive will have on the vaccination campaign.  Afghanistan is one of four countries, along with India, Pakistan and Nigeria, where polio remains endemic.  Over the past year, at least eight other countries have reported circulation of imported polio virus, including Angola, Chad, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Nepal, Niger, Somalia and Yemen.

Movement

2007: Pakistan has reportedly extended the deadline to close Jalozai camp until March 2008.  (IRIN, Sep. 4).  The UNHCR has asked Pakistan to temporarily suspend closure of Jalozai refugee camp in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) that was originally scheduled to be closed on August 31.  UNHCR said due to the fast approaching Muslim holy month of Ramadan and winter season, conditions were not conducive for the return of some 100,000 camp residents.  UNHCR said any forceful return of these refugees could lead to secondary displacement. 

Pakistan to close all Afghan refugee camps by December 2009 and to repatriate all refugees living in the country.  UNHCR says it has repatriated over 306,000 Afghan refugees from Pakistan so far this year under its voluntary repatriation campaign.  (UNHCR, Aug. 10)

4.2 million refugees have returned to Afghanistan, and 500,000 IDPs returned home since early 2002.  Close to 3 million of the refugees returned from Pakistan. 2.6 million Afghans remain in Pakistan, including one million in 74 long-term camps. About 1.5 million Afghans returned from Iran; Taking into account unassisted returns, perhaps 600,000 to 700,000 Afghans remain in Iran—up to 30,000 are in seven camps.

Iran deported some 85,000 unregistered refugees to Afghanistan during April 21 - May 14, 2007.  Iranian officials say they plan to initially send back 500,000 of over a million illegal refugees in the country.  Earlier this week, Iran said it has reached an agreement with the Afghan government to slow down the pace of expulsions for illegal Afghans living in the country. 

Some 200,000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan have returned to their homes under the UN-assisted voluntary Afghan refugee repatriation program since it resumed on March 1, 2007, following a seasonal winter suspension.  Pakistani authorities say voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan that are without proof of registration (PoR) ended this week (April 15), and refugees remaining in the country without PoR are now considered illegal and subject to government action.  Repatriation campaign for Afghan refugees with PoR

2006: UNHCR expects to assist 550,000 returnees—400,000 from Pakistan and 150,000 from Iran.  However, so far this year only some 60,000 Afghan refugees have repatriated from Pakistan.  Unassisted returns are a factor from Pakistan and have been a major contributor to returns from Iran. The tripartite arrangement among UNHCR-Afghanistan-Pakistan is good through 2006; The UNHCR-Afghanistan-Iran Joint Program has been extended into 2007.  Repatriation from Pakistan, halted for the winter, recommenced on March 1.  UNHCR assisted nearly 9,000 refugees in returning from Pakistan and over 500 from Iran during March.  In April 2006, Pakistan will close two long-term camps in NWFP, and two in Baluchistan Province with 250,000 long-term residents.  Refugees in Baluchistan can either return to Afghanistan or relocate to Mohammad Kheil camp near Quetta. Refugees in NWFP are moving to Afghanistan or one of ten camps in NWFP—refugees are pushing for a one-year delay. 

2005 plans called for 400,000 Afghan refugees to return home from Pakistan and 200,000 from Iran, down from an earlier 350,000 estimated from Iran. 453,000 returned from Pakistan.  67,000 from Iran were assisted and over 210,000 returned on their own to Iran for a total of nearly 280,000, and a combined Pakistan and Iran total of 733,000—close to the original projection.

2004 plans were for one million to return.  Actual returnees were around 850,000, with 385,000 from Pakistan and 460,000 from Iran, including 80,000 spontaneous returns.  Pakistan closed camps in South Waziristan and all new camps, with remaining new refugees going to Mohamed Kheil camp in Baluchistan Province. 

Emphasis in 2003 was on repatriation from old camps and cities in Pakistan to rural areas in Afghanistan.  70% of returnees from Pakistan were from cities and 30% from camps. Over a third returned to Kabul, another 10% went to other central provinces, and just over 20% returned to each of the north and east.  The Southern region received 6% and the Western region 4%. The 2003 peak months were June and July.

In 2002 over 2.3 million Afghan refugees returned with 2 million assisted by UNHCR.  UNHCR repatriated 1.53 million Afghan refugees from Pakistan, including 125,000 from Baluchistan and 1.4 million from the North West Frontier Province.  82% were from urban areas; only 3% were from new camps.  265,000 refugees were assisted in returning from Iran; and 10,000 refugees from the central Asian republics. 

Afghanistan Relief Efforts:  United Nations Coordination Regions

Central Region

Location	Central Region
Coordination
Population	An avalanche in the Murgab area in central Ghor killed at least 16 people. On March 19 floods killed 30 people in Uruzgan province.
IDP Movement
Food	According to local officials, thousands of students attending 40 schools in Ghazni province have not received WFP food assistance for over a month due to insecurity. FAO on July 5 said that 6.5 million Afghans suffer from chronic food insecurity. (July 8, IRIN)
Health	UN agencies and the local provincial government raise funds to build a new maternity wing in the Bamiyan main hospital.  The new facility is expected to provide essential healthcare for expectant mothers in central Bamiyan province and to reduce the risk of both maternal and child mortality.  (UNAMA, July 17). At least 20 children have died in several districts of central Daikundi and northern Balkh provinces over the past five weeks due to water contamination from floods. (IRIN, July 12) Typhoid fever has claimed five lives and infected some 200 others in the Charsada district of central Ghor province. (Feb. 15, People’s Daily Online)
NFIs -Shelter	IOM, UNICEF, UNOCHA, & OXFAM
Water & Sanitation	UNICEF
Security	Afghan security forces killed three militants and wounded and arrested nine others in an operation in central Wardak province. (AP, AFP, Sept. 20)
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East Central Region

Location	East Central Region
Coordination	UNHCR
Population
IDP Movement	UN; Government encouraging refugees to return to home provinces to limit burden on Kabul—government land distribution program only in province of origin;
Food	ISAF troops carried out a two-day food donation near the village of Gulbagh in Chahar Asiab district,  (Feb. 11, NATO) IRC, Action Contra la Faim; WFP;
Health	President Karzai helped inaugurate the new hospital of the National Department of Security on Friday (Sep. 14).  (GOA, Sep. 14) More than 10,000 people, mostly children, have been affected by diarrhea in flood-stricken provinces across the country, including Kabul. (IRIN, July 12) Kabul is home to the world’s worst outbreak of leishmaniasis, thought to have spread to hundreds of thousands of people.  The sandflies that spread the parasites causing the disease are present in all Afghan cities, but more prominently in poor, crowded areas where they breed on waste land and in trash. (Reuters, May 7) UNICEF, CARITAS, MSF, IFRC, IRC, ICRC;
Non-Food Items - Shelter	UNHCR, ACTED, MSF, IRC, ICRC, IOM;
Security	A French soldier was killed and several civilians wounded in a suicide attack aimed at a NATO convoy on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul.  (KT, Reuters, Sep. 21) Afghan police said Tuesday (Sep. 18) that they arrested three men in connection with the kidnapping of a Bangladeshi aid worker who worked with the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (Brac), on Saturday (Sep. 15).  The aid worker is still being held. Another employee of Brac was shot dead last week in northern Badakhshan. (BBC, Sep. 18) Afghan and NATO-led forces on patrol in Surobi (also spelled Sarobi) district in Kabul on Sunday (September 16) morning called in airstrikes after they came under attack.  Major Charles Anthony, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said at least one suspected insurgent was killed in the airstrike.  (AP, Sep. 17) Taliban continue to hold four Afghans and one German abducted on July 18 in central Wardak province.  (AlertNet, Aug. 1). They were reportedly civil engineers working for UN building projects. (People’s Daily Online, July 20) As many as seven civilians and three soldiers were wounded in a suicide car bomb attack aimed at a US-led military convoy on the outskirts of Kabul.  One Afghan was reportedly killed when US troops opened fire at a police team responding to the scene of the bombing. (MSNBC, July 31)
Water & Sanitation	ICRC;
Comments	The Mine Action Program for Afghanistan (MAPA) says it has completed demining the community of Karte Sakhi in Kabul.  (UNAMA, Sep. 15) Floods triggered by spring rains continue to affect districts in Kunar, Laghman and Nangarhar provinces.  Floods have killed 13 people in Kunar and another eight in Laghman.  Nearly 3,000 people have been affected by the floods in these provinces.  (OCHA, Apr. 5)

Eastern Region

Location	Eastern Region
Coordination	UNHCR, International Islamic Relief Organization;
Population
IDP Movement	UNHCR
Food	IRC; NATO-led ISAF PRT transports water pipes for a nearly 7-mile-long planned water supply project in Baghlan province.  (NATO, Aug. 23)t
Health	Provincial officials in southern Khost, Kandahar and eastern Nangarhar provinces have confirmed hundreds of diarrhea cases due to water contamination from recent floods. (IRIN, July 11) FAO confirmed cases of the H5N1 type of bird flu in poultry in the eastern city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province and in Sawki district in Kunar province.  (FAO, Feb. 26)
Non-Food Items - Shelter	CWS, UNICEF
Security	Two Afghan policemen were killed and three others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Khost on Friday (Sep. 14).  (TN, Sep. 14) Three Taliban insurgents, including a bomb maker, were arrested today (Friday, Sep. 14) in Sherzad district in eastern Nangarhar province.  (KT, Sep. 14)
Water & Sanitation	CARITAS; ICRC, UNICEF
Comments

Northeastern Region

Location	Northeastern Region
Coordination
Population	9,000 active IDPs in North and Northeast
Movement IDPs
Food
Health	WHO, Merlin, UNICEF, MSF; ICRC
Non-Food Items (NFIs) -Shelter	UNICEF, ACTED, Refugees Int’l, Mercy Corps
Security	A Bangladeshi national working on a microfinance project was gunned down by unidentified assailants on Wednesday (Sep. 12) in Badakhshan.  (KT, Sep. 13). NATO/German PRT in Faizabad
Water & Sanitation
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Northern Region

Location	Northern Region
Coordination	UNHCR, IOM
Population	9,000 active IDPs in North and Northeast; 60,000 IDPs from North elsewhere in country;
Movement IDPs	IOM
Food
Health	MSF, ICRC, UNICEF; At least 20 children have died in several districts of northern Balkh and central Daikundi provinces over the past five weeks due to water contamination from floods. (IRIN, July 12)
NFIs –Shelter	IOM, ACTED, Mercy Corps
Security	Afghan and NATO-led forces claim to have captured a local Taliban commander in Kapisa province, northwest of the capital, Kabul.  (Reuters, Sep. 17)
Water & Sanitation	UNICEF, ICRC, DACAAR
Comments	ISAF PRT helps flood-affected families in Khamyab and Qarqin districts in Jowzjan province at the request of provincial authorities.  (Frontier Post, Aug. 12)

Southern Region

Location	Southern Region
Coordination	UNHCR
Population	IFRC says that flash floods and avalanches in early March have affected 2,200 families in Helmand/Sangreen Grishk, Musa Qala, and Nowzad districts; and 400 families in Uruzgan/Dehraud district. (IFRC, March 23).
Movement of IDPs	880 families affected by conflict in Chora district in Uruzgan province have been settled in Tirin Kot and Dehrawud districts with the help of UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and UNICEF.  (Reliefweb, July 30) About 2,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled their homes in several parts of Helmand province due to heavy fighting between Taliban insurgents and NATO-led forces. (IRIN, July 9)
Food	The World Food Program (WFP) delivered 500 metric tons of food to the provincial capital Lashkargah, in southern Helmand province for some 4,500 families affected by fighting in Musa Qala, Sangin, Kajakiand Nawzad districts.  (Reliefweb, Sep. 3) WFP also distributed 300 tons of food to some 37,000 beneficiaries in Kandahar and Helmand under food-for-work and literacy programs.  (Reliefweb, Sep. 3) UNICEF; Mercy Corps; CARITAS; WFP;
Health	The Australian Reconstruction Task Force (RTF), part of the Dutch-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Regional Command South, has completed the redevelopment of the Tarin Kowt Hospital and the construction of the Yaklengah Comprehensive Health Clinic.  (NATO, Sep. 17) The Afghan Ministry of Public Health and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed a memorandum of understanding under which the ICRC will significantly increase its support for the 390-bed regional referral Mirwais Hospital in Kand ahar for the next two years.  The hospital formerly run by Italian NGO Emergency provides essential care for thousands of patients, including men, women and children wounded in hostilities in the neighboring provinces of Zabul, Helmand and Uruzgan.  (ICRC, July 26) Members of the NATO-led ISAF medical team with the support of the Afghan National Police deployed recently to Arghestan district, Kandahar province, to provide temporary medical assistance to the local populace.  Working alongside with ANP in Khughani village, the medical mission treated 575 local Afghans and 30 policemen.  (NATO, July 23) Up to 80 diarrhea patients are daily visiting a hospital in Laskargah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, due to contamination from recent floods. Provincial officials in southern Khost, Kandahar and eastern Nangarhar provinces have also confirmed hundreds of diarrhea cases.  (IRIN, July 11)
NFIs - Shelter	UNHCR, Mercy Corps;
Security	At least 40 suspected Taliban militants were killed in US-led coalition airstrikes in Garmsher district in Helmand province on Friday (Sep. 21).  (TOI, KT, IHT, Sep. 21) A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up on Thursday (September 20) near an Afghan army truck in the southeastern province of Ghazni, killing himself, and severely wounding a soldier.  (AP, AFP, Sep. 20) NATO-led ISAF said today (Friday, Sep. 21) that six civilians were killed in a military operation in Gereshk district in Helmand on Wednesday (Sep. 19).  (KT, Reuters, Sep. 21) Three police officers were killed and eight wounded Wednesday (Sep. 19) in a suicide attack on a police convoy in the city of Garmsir in the southern province of Helmand. (DPA, Sep. 19) A tribal elder, Haji Mirajan, was shot to death Tuesday (Sep. 18) night in the Greshk district in Helmand province by unknown gunmen. (DPA, Sep. 19) A senior police officer was gunned down by unknown gunmen late Tuesday (Sep. 18) on the outskirts of Ghazni city.  (DPA, Sep. 19) Afghan officials say that US air strikes targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders on Monday (Sep. 17) night killed a commander who orchestrated the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans.  Taliban commander of Qara Bagh district in Ghazni province, Mullah Abdullah Jan, was among 12 killed in the strike, provincial police officials said. (The News, Sep. 18) A British soldier was killed and another wounded when an army truck came under attack in Gereshk district in Helmand province Monday afternoon (Sep. 17).  According to Afghan officials, 14 Taliban fighters were also killed in two separate clashes in Helmand.  Nine Taliban insurgents preparing for an ambush were killed in an air strike, while five others died when they attacked Afghan and US-led coalition forces.  (BBC, Sep. 18) A suicide bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Monday (Sep. 17) killed at least eight people and wounded several others.  The attack took place in Nad Ali district in southern Helmand province when a suicide bomber entered a compound housing both a local government office and a police headquarters and blew himself up. Seven others, including the district police chief, were wounded in the attack.  (Reuters, BBC, AP, Sep. 17) The Afghan Defense Ministry said Afghan security forces also captured 17 individuals involved in terrorism and violent activities in Wardak province, southwest of Kabul on Monday (Sep. 17).  (Reuters, Sep. 17)
Water & Sanitation	UNICEF
Comments	UNICEF estimates some 262 of the 740 schools in the southern provinces of Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul are currently unable to provide education.  (UNNS, July 30) Afghanistan’s Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) to launch 72 new projects worth US$2.6 million in southern provinces, creating jobs benefiting thousands of families.  (Reliefweb, July 30) Floods in Kunar province on Monday (June 25) left seven dead and three missing.  The floods also damaged houses, agricultural lands and infrastructure. (IFRC, June 29) Five people were killed in flash floods that hit Qarabagh and Farza districts in Kabul province on Monday (June 25).  In Nirjab district, in Kapisa province, three people were killed and one left missing by floods.  In Parwan province, five people were killed and eight others injured in Surkhparsa district.  (IFRC, June 29)

Southern Region IDP camps

Location	Zhare Dasht - South of Kandahar – 6 camps
Type	IDP Camp
Coordination	UNHCR
Camp Capacity	30,000; expandable to 60,000
Population	125,000 IDPs in south; 48,500 at Zhare Dasht
Movement IDP
Food	WFP
Health	UNICEF, MSF;
NFIs - Shelter
Security
Water & Sanitation	UNICEF
Comments	Support for Spin Boldak camps terminated in 2004.

Western Region

Location	Western Region
Coordination	UNHCR; ICMC
Population	According to the IFRC, flash floods and avalanches in early March affected some 200 families in Herat city; 918 families in Gulran district; 35 families in Cheshte Sharif district; 150 families in Shindand district, 6,500 families in Badghis/Jawand and Murghab districts, and 20 families in Gour district. (IFRC, March 23)  12,000 IDPs, mostly in Maslakh camp
Movement IDPs	IOM
Food	IRC, CARITAS, UNICEF, World Vision, IOM, Action Contre la Faim; WFP; Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees (DACAAR) is providing safe drinking water to the drought-affected western Afghan provinces of Farah and Herat.  Some 7,000 families, or 42,000 individuals, will be provided safe water and hygiene training.  (DACAAR, Aug. 22) WFP said on Wednesday (July 11) that it has resumed some food deliveries along the southern ring road, allowing it to deliver food to the western region. Normal operations moving 1,500 to 1,200 tons of food each week are planned. In late May, WFP suspended some of its deliveries to parts of southern, eastern and western Afghanistan due to insecurity. (WFP, July 11)
Health	Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), with the help of US-led coalition forces, carried out a Medical Civic Action Program (MEDCAP) in Shewan, western Farah province on August 30 and treated more than 811 people, including 576 women and children.  (USG, Sep. 2)
Non-Food Items (NFIs) – Shelter	UNHCR, Iranian Red Crescent, UNICEF, IOM, Ockenden Int’l, MSF, IMC
Security	At least 24 people were killed in violence in Bala Murghab district in Afghanistan's northwestern Badghis province on Wednesday (Sep. 19) after dozens of Taliban fighters attacked a police post. (AFP, AP, Sep. 20)
Water & Sanitation	UNICEF
Comments

Refugee Camps in Pakistan

Location	Long-term camps in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), NWFP, Baluchistan Province, and by capital, Islamabad; Mohamed Kheil 1 & 2 camps (85 km southwest of Quetta)
Type	Refugee Camps
Coordination	Afghanistan, Pakistan and UNHCR on Thursday (August 2) extended the tripartite agreement governing the voluntary repatriation of registered Afghans from Pakistan through December 2009. The agreement provides a legal and operational framework for the process. To date, more than 3 million Afghans have returned from Pakistan under the voluntary repatriation program since 2002. This year, more than 300,000 Afghans have returned.  (UNHCR, GOP, August 2) The Kacha Garhi Afghan refugee camp was officially closed on Thursday (July 26).  Kacha Garhi, set up in 1980 and located in Hayatabad in NWFP, had 64,000 registered Afghans.  The closure followed two years of negotiations, as many refugees initially did not want to repatriate.  By the camp's closure, some 37,000 refugees had been repatriated by the UNHCR.  Most refugees were originally from Afghanistan's eastern and central provinces of Nangarhar, Laghman, Kabul, and Logar. (UNHCR, July 27)
Camp Capacity	About one million mostly long term Afghans in 74 camps—down from about 200 camps.
Population	2.05 million registered Afghans remaining in Pakistan; 63 camps in NWFP, 12 in Baluchistan; and one million elsewhere; Many occupants are long-term residents or were born in Pakistan; (UNHCR, August 2) Jungle Pir Alizai (Balochistan): 36,000, originally scheduled to close June 15 Kacha Gari (NWFP): original population of 64,811, officially closed July 26 – 37,000 repatriated. (UNHCR, July 27) Jalozai (NWFP): 109,934, originally scheduled to close August 31.  UNHCR on August 22 requested Pakistan to temporarily suspend the camp’s closure due to insufficient time for some 100,000 people to move and settle into new places in the face of the fast approaching Ramadan and winter season.  (UNHCR, Aug. 22).  Pakistan has extended the camp closure deadline until March 2008.  (IRIN, Sep. 4) Girdi Jungle (Balochistan): 17,844, scheduled to close August 31 (IRIN, June 14)
Refugee Movement	Pakistan wants some 2 million Afghan refugees to return home by 2009.  (AP, June 14) UNHCR has resumed voluntary repatriation of Afghans from Pakistan since Tuesday (July 17).  VRCs along the Quetta-Chaman road and in Peshawar will process registered Afghans. (Frontier Post, July 17)
Food	UNHCR in coordination with local and international organizations is helping some 4,000 Afghans in five flood-affected Afghan refugee camps in Balochistan province.  The assistance mainly included non-food items such as tents and tarpaulins.  (IRIN, July 26).  WFP, CRS, ARC
Health	UNICEF, MSF
Non-Food Items (NFIs) - Shelter	CRS
Security	At least three Pakistani villagers and an Afghan refugee were killed when hundreds of villagers and refugees living in and near the Jungle Pir Alizai camp in Balochistan province clashed with police sent to demolish their homes. (AP, June 14)
Water & Sanitation	IFRC, MDM
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