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    THE global handling of security challenges is causing immense secondary problems related to the mass migration of populations from war zones to countries at peace such as those in the European Union. According to the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, about 70 million war-displaced persons are seeking entry to the EU. Out of the additional 700,000 who joined the ranks of this category 370,000 were Syrians, 14pc Afghans, 10pc Iraqis and 4pc Pakistanis. In Afghanistan and Pakistan migration has always been a traditional means of finding employment in countries short of labour; however, ordinary people are now fleeing their homeland…