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Pakistani officials say they are already struggling to care for two million refugees.
Pakistan has refused to allow the United Nations to register 80,000 Afghans living in extremely difficult conditions at a makeshift camp in northwestern Pakistan. U.N. officials say the Jalozai camp is not fit for human habitation, and the refugees living there need to be relocated to a better place where they can be given assistance. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers told reporters that he discussed the issue with Pakistani leaders, but there was no immediate resolution of the impasse. We want to check first, individually, that they are, in our definition, and in international definition, refugees. On this point, I have to confess that I was not successful.