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Angelina Jolie seeks world help for Afghan refugees
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Angelina Jolie seeks world help for Afghan refugees
Hollywood star and UN goodwill envoy Angelina Jolie asked for increased international help to repatriate more than 3 million Afghans living in Pakistan. ?Their children still need to go to school, they need some health care. We cannot let funding completely drop for them,? said Jolie, the goodwill ambassador of the UN High Commission for Refugees, at the end of her four-day trip to Pakistan.
Jolie met President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz as she visited the country to draw attention to the plight of refugees.The world should help Pakistan shoulder the burden, she said.The star, her hair covered by a traditional shawl as she toured a refugee camp near Peshawar, in North West Frontier Province, said she was dismayed by the lack of funds spent on education.
She said there was a need to boost development efforts in Afghanistan as fast as possible, ?especially in the rural areas so that people can return to their homes.?
UN officials say Pakistan receives $12 million a year in aid for around 1 million refugees in camps created to shelter Afghans who fled to Pakistan to escape an era of conflict that began with the Soviet invasion in 1979. Despite wretched conditions in Afghanistan, some 2.3 million Afghans have gone home since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. Another 400,000 are expected to return this year, but many more have laid down roots in Pakistan and don?t want to leave.
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