The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says the number of people displaced by war, violence and persecution has reached 114 million globally. “Next month we will update this figure,” Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for refugees, said. “It will be higher. Since briefing the Security Council in October and warning that humanitarians were More

About 11,623 Afghan refugees returned voluntarily or have been deported from Pakistan and Iran during the past one week, the Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) says. Wesal TV took these figures from MoRR’s X handle. It said 4,742 people or 938 families returned to the country via Torkham and Spin Boldak crossings after being More

Thirty-two more Afghan refugees have returned to the country after being freed from jails in Pakistan, police in eastern Nangarhar province said on Tuesday. Torkham Interpol Police Chief Qari Ahmad said 32 Afghan refugees after being released from Pakistani prisons had returned to the country. He said that most of the returnees were children who More

At least 12 undocumented Afghans have been released from jail in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, says the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR). In a post on X, the ministry wrote: “According to the information from the border department in Torkham of Nangarhar province, these individuals had been arrested for lacking valid documents. They were More

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has decided to release 42 Afghan prisoners from various prisons of the country, the Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said on Thursday. In a statement, MoFA said the UAE government had decided to release 42 Afghan prisoners as a result of continuous efforts of the Afghan Embassy in that More

The government of Iran has decided to impose fines on employers of illegal foreigners, including a large number of Afghans. Under the new regulation, an employer wound be fined 1.2 million tomans for hiring illegal foreigners, IRNA reported. Iran’s Directorate General for Employment of Expatriates and the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare said More

About 15 undocumented Afghans have returned to the country after being released from jails in Pakistan, the Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Saturday. The ministry wrote on its X page the 15 prisoners had been released from different jails of Pakistan. It said: “Based on the information from Torkham Border Director in More

Stakeholders have been urged to join hands for helping exiled Afghan journalists deal with current humanitarian challenges. At a conference in Islamabad on Monday, speakers underlined collective efforts to alleviate the plight of Afghan journalists who fled to Pakistan after the 2021 regime change in their homeland. As many of them have already been resettled More

The government of Pakistan has given the go-ahead for extending the validity of Proof of Registration (POR) cards for Afghan refugees from April 1 to June 30 this year. With this extension, recommended by the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions, POR card-holders will enjoy education, bank accounts and other facilities in Pakistan. Chaired by More

Despite burgeoning calls for a halt to deportations, the repatriation of illegal Afghan nationals from Pakistan continued. Official data suggested on Tuesday 7,041 Afghan citizens left Pakistan from April 13 to April 22, including 2,967 men, 1,834 women and 2,240 children. As of April 22, 2024, the number of illegal Afghans leaving Pakistan soared to More