The Afghan actor Ali Danish Bakhtyari, who played the role of an orphan in the 2007 film “The Kite Runner,” has fled the Taliban rule in his home country twice: first in the late 1990s, and then in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. Keith Kocinski has the story from
Ariana: Turkey is routinely pushing tens of thousands of Afghans back at its land border with Iran or deporting them directly to Afghanistan with little or no examination of their claims for international protection, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’”
پاکستانی پولیس کا مجبور افغان باشندوں سے ظلم کی انتہا جو بیچارے نہایت تنگ دستی میں علاج معالجہ کے لیے گئے ہیں مگر ان کو جانوروں کی طرح رسی سے باندھ کر ہانکا جارہا ہے۔ اگر افغانستان میں ایک خودمختار حکومت ہوتی تو پاکستان کے متعصب پولیس پشتون دشمنی میں افغانوں سے یہ ظلم نہ
8am: On Saturday, November 12, Anadolu Agency, quoting Turkish government officials as report that 57,174 Afghan citizens have been returned to their country this year. After the Taliban took over the control of the country, thousands of Afghan citizens have tried to reach Turkey through various routes, including Iran. Click here to read more (external
Daily Sabah: An investigation was launched after Turkish police found the bodies of five Afghan nationals with stab wounds in a house in the capital Ankara on Thursday. The five bodies were found after family members contacted police and reported the five to be missing, Anadolu Agency said. Afghans are believed to be the second-largest
Khaama: Based on the media reports, over 1,100 Afghan refugees including women and children have been arrested and imprisoned in Sindh state of Pakistan, Hamid Karzai tweeted on Monday. The former Afghan President, Hamid Karzai has expressed his concerns about the mistreating of Pakistan’s government with the Afghan refugees and has called on Pakistan’s administration
VOA News November 4, 2022 WASHINGTON — Afghan journalists who fled across the border to Pakistan to escape Taliban rule say they still face an uncertain future. Living in Pakistan often on temporary or family visas, many are unable to find work and are concerned about their legal status when their permits expire. “We don’t know
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 23, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have sharply reacted to reports a U.S. military officer had forcibly taken a child away from an Afghan couple who arrived in the United States as refugees. The couple filed a federal lawsuit against Marine Corps Attorney Major Joshua Mast and his wife last
VOA News October 22, 2022 Zheela Noori Roshan Noorzai WASHINGTON — Germany’s announcement that it will take in 1,000 at-risk Afghans with their families from Afghanistan will be challenging, an Afghan lawyer says, because it is becoming increasingly difficult for Afghans to leave Afghanistan. In a joint statement, the German Foreign and Interior ministries announced
Khaama: The new programme will admit 1,000 Afghans per month and their family members, targeting particularly exposed Afghans who are active in women’s and human rights advocacy or those at risk for working in the fields of justice, politics, media, education, culture, sport or science. Click here to read more (external link).