The Ministry of States and Frontier Regions , ''wazarat-e- reyasti o sarhadi umoor'' (abbreviated as SAFRON) was a federal ministry in

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

. The main responsibilities of the ministry were the administrative affairs and development activities in the tribal areas of Pakistan, including Frontier Regions of Pakistan and

Federally Administered Tribal Areas The Federally Administered Tribal Areas, commonly known as FATA, was a semi-autonomous tribal region in north-western Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with the neighbouring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 through the ...

(FATA). It has been merged into the

Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan The Ministry of Kashmir Affairs & Gilgit-Baltistan (; abbreviated as MoKGB) is a ministry of the Government of Pakistan. It handles the regional affairs of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan as both territories of Pakistani-administ ...

as of 2025.

Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees

In 1980, the Commissionerate for

Afghan Refugees Afghan refugees are citizens of Afghanistan who were forced to flee from their country as a result the continuous wars that the country has suffered since the Afghan-Soviet war, the Afghan civil war, the Afghanistan war (2001–2021) or either p ...

was established in

Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...

under SAFRON. This was in response to the influx of refugees from

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

to Pakistan from 1979, due to the Soviet invasion and factional fighting in Afghanistan. The main functions of Commissionerate are to manage Afghan refugees and support the provision of basic facilities for the welfare of Afghan refugees, coordinating activities with federal and provincial government, NGOs, and international agencies specially

UNHCR The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and Humanitarian protection, protect refugees, Internally displaced person, forcibly displaced communities, and Statelessness, s ...

. There is a Commissionerate for

in each

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except Sindh.

Cadet College Razmak

Cadet College Razmak, North Waziristan Agency is an autonomous body of the ministry.

List of ministers

References

External links

Ministry of States and Frontier Regions of Pakistan

Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees Punjab

Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees KP

Ministry of States and Frontier Regions Official Twitter account
{{Pakistan-gov-stub Former government ministries of Pakistan

Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees

Cadet College Razmak

List of ministers

See also

References

External links