There is no list barring the resettlement of Afghans who worked with American forces in the United States, says the State Department. The transfer of such individuals to the US remained Washington’s policy, a spokesperson for the State Department told a media briefing on Monday. On March 15, Reuters reported that the Trump administration was More
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has voiced his resentment at the treatment being meted out to Afghan refugees in Pakistan. “Afghan refugees have been humiliated,” the chief minister claimed, while taking a dig at the federal government’s policy towards the migrants. Gandapur told a news conference here on Sunday refugee should not be More
An Afghan couple has been gunned down in the Sohrab Goth area of Pakistan’s port city of Karachi. Police said Mohammed Azam, 50, and Gul Bibi, 40, were shot dead inside their house in Afghan Camp neighbourhood on Wednesday. A lone gunman entered the house and killed the couple, whose bodies were taken to the More
At least 181 people, including women, have been missing after two boats capsized in waters off Yemen, says the International Organisation of Migration (IOM). The boats carrying more than 180 migrants capsized off the coast of Yemen’s Dhubab district in Ta’iz Governorate on Thursday, IOM said in a statement on Friday. Two crewmembers were rescued, but More
The Afghan consul general in Pakistan’s Karachi city says 12 refugees have been released from different jails in Sindh province. In a video clip, Consul General Abdul Jabbar Takhari said the released individuals returned to their homeland vial the Spin Boldak-Chaman crossing. A small number of Afghans were still imprisoned in Sindh and efforts were More
In line with its repatriation campaign, the Pakistan government has asked Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders to leave the country by March 31. The Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Programme (IFRP) is being enforced since November 1, 2023, says the Interior Ministry. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said: “In continuation of the government’s decision to More
About 132 Afghan nationals have been flown on a charter flight from Pakistan to Germany, a media report said on Thursday. Deutsche Welle (DW) reported another 25 Afghan citizens, who were supposed to be shifted to Germany on the same flight, were not allowed to fly due to flaws in their documents. The report explained: More
Hundreds of families have been displaced by fighting between Afghan and Pakistani forces in Torkham township of Momandara district in eastern Nangarhar province and they seek urgent assistance. The fighting broke out intermittently last night and the night before, with Afghan officials accusing Pakistani militias of initiating the conflict and also targeting commercial and residential More
Forty-seven Afghan nationals, recently freed from prisons in Pakistan, have returned to Afghanistan, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Monday. According to a statement from the MoRR, the individuals arrived through the Spin Boldak crossing on Sunday. A source from the Border Patrol Directorate of Spin Boldak in Kandahar was quoted as More
The Pakistan government has announced the launch of the second phase of repatriating Afghan refugees. In the second phase, Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders — numbering about 800,000 — would be sent back to their homeland, says the Ministry of Interior. Preparations have also been made to relocate legal Afghan citizens from Islamabad and Rawalpindi More
