United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees appoints Javed Afridi, Chairman of Peshawar

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has announced Javed Afridi to be the Youth Ambassador to Pakistan at the Geneva Refugee Forum event.

Javed Afridi is a role model for youth, and his awareness of refugees’ problems and solutions will be of great help, said Indrika Ratwatte, Regional Director UNHCR for Asia and Pacific.

Javed Afridi said that the issue of migrants all over the world who are away from their country and facing problems, is being solved and where the migrants around the world deserve attention on basis of human empathy, they are also the future of their countries.

Javed Afridi said he would do his best to highlight the problems of refugees and play an active role in resolving them. On the occasion, Javed Afridi announced to give jobs to twenty-five refugees.