ISLAMABAD: Refugees Affected and Hosting Areas’ (RAHA) efforts have benefitted over 10.6 million people after its projects were initiated under the supervision of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
According to official sources for the organisation, it has completed more than 300 projects in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, with the amount invested reaching $175 million.
The source added that RAHA was focusing on facilitating the health, education, development and production sector in order to create cohesion between Afghan refugees and their host communities.
Pakistan is still host to the largest protracted refugee population in the world with 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees, even after the government enforced its recent policy of forcibly returning them to Afghanistan.
The UNHCR has itself facilitated the return of four million registered Afghans from Pakistan since 2002, with another 107,000 registered refugees returned this year.
