More than 100,000 Afghan refugees have returned to the country during the past three weeks after being forcibly expelled from Pakistan, a media report said on Wednesday. The deadline for the departure of Afghan refugees in Pakistan expired on March 31. Dawn news reported more than 100,000 Afghans have left Pakistan in the past three More
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says two-thirds of Afghan refugees deported from Pakistan are children. Dr. Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF representative in Afghanistan, shared wrote on X: “Just returned from the Torkham, where I met these boys at a child-friendly space.” According to him, of the 600,000 Afghans who have returned since September More
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) says 115 more Afghan citizens returned to their homeland on Monday after being released from prisons in Pakistan. Citing border officials in Kandahar’s Spin Boldak town, the ministry wrote on X the 115 Afghans, who spent one to three days in jails, had been arrested in various parts More
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) says 130 more Afghan citizens returned to their homeland on Saturday after being released from prisons in Pakistan. Citing border officials in Kandahar’s Spin Boldak border town, the ministry wrote on X the 130 Afghans, who spent one to three days in jails, had been arrested in various More
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) says 50 more Afghan citizens released from prisons in Pakistan returned to their homeland on Thursday. Citing border officials in Kandahar’s Spin Boldak border town, the ministry wrote on X the 50 Afghans, who had spent one to five days in jails, had been arrested in various parts More
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has voiced its concern at the forced expulsion of Afghan refugees from Pakistan. The Federation announced it was supporting the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) to address the immediate and longer-term needs of 50,000 people. Earlier, the government of Pakistan had asked all Afghans More
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) says 91 Afghans released from prisons in Pakistan have returned to their homeland. Citing Spin Boldak border officials in Kandahar, the ministry wrote on X the 91 Afghans, who had spent one to five days in jails, had been arrested in various parts of Pakistan. After receiving humanitarian More
The US Department of Homeland Security has revoked the temporary protected status (TPS) for Afghanistan and Cameroon, a decision that puts over 14,000 Afghans at risk of deportation. The Trump administration moved to end legal protections for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians legally living in the United States, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday. It said More
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) announced on Thursday 192 Afghan nationals, recently released from prisons in Pakistan, have returned to Afghanistan. According to a MoRR statement, these individuals had been arrested and detained in various parts of Pakistan for lacking legal documentations as per information provided by the Border Police at Spin Boldak More
Hundreds of Afghan families are returning to the country through Torkham every day after Pakistan launched a crackdown on illegally residing refugees. The returning families complain the Pakistani police mistreated them and snatched their belongings. “We came here empty-handed, police snatched everything from us. They imprisoned our women and then deported us.” Amir Khan, 65, More
