Another 350 more Afghan refugees have landed in Canada, with their number set to reach 40,000 by the end of 2023, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says. The IRCC announced their arrival in Toronto on its Twitter page on Wednesday. However, IRCC did not say from which country they had been evacuated. Since the More

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that 5.6 million Afghan refugees and 295,000 asylum seekers are living in foreign countries. The UN Refugee Agency published these figures and said that 9.2 million Afghans had forcibly been displaced worldwide. The source said 5.6 million Afghans were immigrants and people with similar status to refugees, and More

Over 300 Afghan migrants have been flown to Canada through a charter flight, Canadian government official said on Thursday. On its Twitter handle, Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, wrote: “A charter flight landed in Calgary today, carrying 309 Afghan nationals to safety!” He wrote that this flight included passengers who worked with More

Zamir, a boy who lost four members of his family on their way to Iran, has asked the acting government to create jobs and thereby alleviate the suffering of Afghans. After the political change in August 2021, the international community has considerably slashed aid to Afghanistan and has frozen more than $9 billion foreign reserves More

An Afghan man who fled the country in 2021 has been gunned down in Washington DC, reports a major US media outlet. After migrating with his family to the US, Nasrat Ahmadyar was shot to death while on an extra shift as a driver. Police are looking for suspects. CNN quoted police as saying the More

Afghan citizens in Pakistan could return to Afghanistan on the bases of their National Identity Card (NIC), an official said on Saturday. Torkham Township Commissar Esmatullah Yaqoubi confirmed the agreement with Pakistani official reached on Friday night in this regard. They assured officials in Pakistan to allow Afghans living in Pakistan without legal documents to More

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on Saturday announced the arrival of 192 Afghan refugees in a chartered flight to Canada from the United Arab Emirate (UAE). Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, tweeted: “Today, a charter flight with 192 Afghan Government-Assisted Refugees arrived safely in Halifax.” “Welcome to 🇨🇦! Thank you to More

The federal government of Germany has decided to resume the evacuation process of Afghans at risk from next week, according to a media report on Friday. Deutsche Welle reported the German Foreign Ministry officials that each month 1,000 vulnerable Afghans at risk would be evacuated in this process. The German foreign ministry spokesperson said that More

At least 78 people from Afghanistan and Pakistan were confirmed to be among those killed in last week’s shipwreck off the coast of Greece, the Afghanistan Embassy in Italy said. The fishing trawler that capsized on Wednesday was carrying about 800 people, according to reports. The Afghanistan Embassy in Italy wrote on its twitter page, More

Marking World Refugee Day, Amnesty International on Tuesday asked Pakistani authorities to urgently stop harassing and arbitrarily arresting Afghan refugees and asylum-seekers Many Afghans, who went to Pakistan after the regime change in 2021, they have been subjected to waves of arrests, arbitrary detentions and the threat of deportation. Amnesty International said due to considerable More