GENEVA: Afghanistan could face a major crisis without trade and support flows, and the international community should not turn a blind eye to the situation, a United Nations official stressed on Friday.

Babar Baloch, speaking from Pakistan for the United Nations Refugee Agency, told a UN press briefing that the agency was not seeing a large influx of refugees trying to cross Afghanistan's borders to Pakistan and Iran, and the reasons behind this were being analyzed.

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