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Number of Afghans Displaced Internally Reaches to One Million: ARCS
Nearly one million people have been displaced by war from all across Afghanistan, Afghan Red Crescent Society said on Saturday.
Afghan Red Crescent Society says the number of internally displaced for the current year is unprecedented comparing to the past four years.
“Around one million people have been displaced this year and which is an unprecedented figure,” said Merwais Akram, head of Afghan Red Crescent Society.
Meanwhile, UN Commissioner for Afghan Refugees expresses concern over the return of Afghans from the neighboring countries and the displaced people of insecure provinces.
“UN commissioner is concerning over the return of Afghan refugees from the neighboring countries and the displaced people of the insecure provinces of Afghanistan,” said deputy commissioner of UN in refugee affairs.
While the displaced people and returnees criticize the government, but the ministry of refugee complaint over the lack of financial resources.
“We have a number of plans for displaced people and returnees to not face a humanitarian disaster in the upcoming winter, but we do not have enough financial resources,” said Sayed Alemi Balkhi, minister of refugees.
The war in Afghanistan killed or wounded a record 11,000 civilians last year a quarter of them children taking the total toll to 60,000 since the United Nations began compiling the data in 2009.
The conflict against the Taliban, now in its 15th year, has cost the U.S. more than $700 billion and killed more than 2,300 American soldiers.
Afghanistan has one of the highest refugee populations in the world, estimated at 2.6 million people living outside its borders. Last year, some 178,000 Afghans risked their lives on the dangerous journeys to reach European shores and apply for asylum, Amnesty’s report said.
The deputy prime minister for policy, Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, met with Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, at Sapidar Palace on Tuesday and discussed issues around the quality of domestic products and the need to grow and develop the industrial sector.
Azizi said that good trade relations with neighboring countries has resulted in stable prices of goods in the country.
He said the Ministry of Commerce and Industry works closely with the private sector. As a result, the private sector functions in a befitting manner and the Islamic Emirate has provided necessary facilities.
Azizi said that based on the Islamic Emirate’s good economic policies, there has been a significant development in the import/export sector in the country.
Kabir in turn voiced appreciation for efforts by the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and said: “The unprecedented efforts of the IEA’s administrations and the stability of the Afghan currency caused the price of food ingredients to remain in the right state and our people also be able to buy essential materials.”
He emphasized the need to work for a balance in trade with neighboring countries, and said more efforts were needed to improve the quality of domestic products and to grow the sector.
Russia and Tajikistan conducted a joint four-day military exercise along the border with Afghanistan in order to be prepared for any “potential threats”, Tajik media reported this week.
Russian military personnel from the 201st military base in Tajikistan participated in this exercise. Reports stated military personnel practiced various combat tactics, especially tactics to counter terrorist groups that illegally enter Tajikistan.
This comes amid repeated concerns expressed by Afghanistan’s neighbors about what they claim are terrorist threats originating from Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate has not yet commented on the drills but has repeatedly denied the presence of terrorist groups in the country. The IEA has also continuously said no militant group will be allowed to threaten another country from Afghanistan.
The Media Violations Commission has ordered Noor and Barya TV channels to stop broadcasting and to appear in court, state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported on Tuesday.
ّIt is said that the decision against the channels was taken for “not observing the principles of journalism.”
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