United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Monday lauded Pakistan for hosting millions of Afghan refugees in the past four decades.
They were speaking at a 2-day international conference in Islamabad on 40 years of hosting Afghan refugees, which is jointly organised by the government of Pakistan and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR.
The conference is being attended by ministers and senior officials from around 20 countries, including Iran, who have been supporting the Afghan refugees across the globe.
The gathering comes at a time of heightened anticipation of a possible peace deal between the Taliban and the United States and a number of high profile Afghan, American and UN leaders will attend.
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After four decades of war and conflict, around 3 million Afghans still live as refugees in Pakistan.
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, is alarmed that at a time of increasing fatigue among global donors, rising insolation policies by the governments and a possible formal end to war, millions of refugees risk falling through the cracks either in their host nations or in Afghanistan.
