The Pakistan government’s decision to resume the evacuation process of Afghan refugees on April 15 has made Afghan refugees living in Pakistan worried. According to reports, Pakistan last year expelled around 500,000 Afghans and now Islamabad wants to resume the process of Afghan refugees’ evacuation. Nargis Nahtani, an Afghan refugee living in Pakistan for the More
An Afghan journalist working for Azadi Radio has been injured by unknown gunmen in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, media reports said on Thursday. Ahmad Hanayish, who also works as director of Dunya and Kahkashan radio stations, came under attack before dawn. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a relative of the journalist told Pajhwok Afghan More
Amnesty International has once again asked the government of Pakistan to halt forced deportations of Afghan refugees and not to ignore demands of the international community. In a fresh report on Thursday, the watchdog said the Pakistan government, which planned to launch the second phase of repatriating Afghan refugees, should positively respond to global calls. More
More than 67,000 registered Afghan nationals will be repatriated to their homeland after Eidul Fitr from Pakistan’s Sindh province, a media report said on Tuesday. The decision on expelling Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders came at a high-level meeting in the port city of Karachi, Dawn reported. Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar chaired the meeting, More
Turkish police have identified and arrested 52 illegal Afghan migrants who were hiding in a truck’s fuel tank in southeastern Gaziantep city, a media report said on Monday. The migrants hiding in the fuel tank of a truck were arrested, with two people losing their lives and seven other in a critical condition for want More
The Municipality of Tehran has announced a plan for rounding up and deporting Afghan child workers, including scavengers. An Iranian media outlet quoted Tehran Municipality spokesman Abdul Mutahir Mohammad Khani as saying that under the plan, Afghan child workers and drug addicts in the capital would be sent back to their homeland. Meanwhile, Iran’s National More
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation says more than 3,800 Afghan refugees have been deported or voluntarily returned to the country from Pakistan and Iran in the past seven days. MoRR wrote on its X handle that 301 people, comprising 58 families, deported from Pakistan through Torkham. On the other hand, 3,524 people voluntarily returned More
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says more than 63,000 people died during migration in last ten years. The IOM in a report “A Decade of Documenting Migrant Deaths” said more such deaths recorded in 2023 than in any prior year. As the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project marks its ten-year milestone, More
Amnesty International (AI) has asked Pakistan to immediately halt continued detentions, deportations and widespread harassment of Afghan refugees. From September 2023 to February 2024, Pakistan has deported 527, 981 Afghan refugees with little regard to international human rights law, particularly the principle of non-refoulement. “Thousands of Afghan refugees are being used as political pawns to More
Despite criticism from Kabul and human rights groups, Pakistan is gearing up for the second phase of repatriating Afghan refugees. Nearly one million registered Afghan citizens could be sent back to their homeland, with district authorities and police directed to map whereabouts of the refugees. Directives had been issued to district administrations and police to More
