War against terrorism: World needs to acknowledge Pakistan's sacrifices: Afridi

Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) Shehryar Khan Afridi Sunday said Pakistan had been on the forefront to protect the world from the scourge of terrorism and our sacrifices were needed to be acknowledged.
Addressing the participants in a briefing held here at the ministry of Safron, the minister said Pakistan had not only defeated terrorists but was also preventing illegal immigrants from entering into Europe. He urged the world community to play its due role in honourable repatriation of Afghan refugees to their homeland.
Shehryar Afridi said it was an irony that Pakistan had been hosting around four million Afghan refugees for the past four long decades but the world was not ready to share its burden, said a press release issued here.
He said despite the financial crunch situation, the Pakistani government was making utmost efforts to facilitate the Afghan refugees.
He said while many western countries could not accept a single boat of migrants and elections were being fought on anti-migrant policies, Pakistan was all alone doing its part to generously host four million Afghans since 1979.