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More than 500 Afghan refugees return home from Pakistan

19th September, 2023 · admin · Leave a comment

Khaama: The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation of Afghanistan has announced that 470 Afghan migrants, including freed prisoners from Pakistani jails, have returned to the country. These migrants entered the country through the Torkham border, according to the Ministry on Tuesday. Among the returning migrants, 85 were prisoners released from Pakistani custody and returned to

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants |
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More than 100 Afghan refugees freed from Pakistani prisons

14th September, 2023 · admin

Ariana: Over the past five days, 120 Afghan refugees have been released from Pakistani prisons due to the efforts of the Ministry of Refugee Affairs in Quetta, the ministry of Refugees said. According to a statement, more than 500 documented and undocumented Afghan refugees have been arrested and imprisoned by Pakistan’s security agencies in the

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Posted in Human Rights, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants |
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Hundreds Arrested In New Pakistani Crackdown On Afghan Refugees

12th September, 2023 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 12, 2023 Police in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh have arrested more than 250 Afghan refugees and migrants as part of a new crackdown aimed at repatriating undocumented Afghans. Most of the arrests and detentions have occurred in Karachi since September 11. The seaport is the capital

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Posted in Human Rights, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants |
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Afghanistan’s former IEC chief returns home after three year absence

5th September, 2023 · admin

Ariana: Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani, the former head of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), returned to Kabul on Tuesday, the IEA’s [Taliban] contact commission said. In 2018, Youssef Nooristani was convicted of fraud and concealment of money by an American court. He was sentenced to six months house arrest by a federal court judge in the

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Posted in Political News, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Mohammad Yousuf Nuristani |
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Afghan Refugees In Iran Say Camps Filled With Misery As They Await Fate

30th August, 2023 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 30, 2023 Hundreds of Afghan migrants who fled to Iran say they are living in squalid camps located in the southeastern city of Zahedan, battling hunger and dehydration under relentless summer conditions as they wait for news about their return to Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans are said to have migrated

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Posted in Iran-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants |
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Turkish soldiers imprisoned for raping Afghan refugee woman

22nd August, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Two Turkish soldiers have been sentenced to the maximum prison term for the rape of an Afghan refugee woman during her deportation from Turkey to Iran in January. On January 3, during the incident, contract soldiers O.K. and A.C.D. singled out a 25-year-old woman from a group of 8 individuals they had brought to

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Posted in Crime and Punishment, Refugees and Migrants, Turkey-Afghanistan Relations |
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‘My goals in life vanished’: Afghan students rocked by US visa denials

19th August, 2023 · admin

The Guardian (UK): Yalda Azamee blinked back tears as she stared down at the American consular officer. “He did not even give me a chance to explain myself; he rejected me right away. He didn’t even look at my documents,” she said, rushing out of the US embassy building on to the streets of Islamabad

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Refugees and Migrants, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Afghan Pilots Wait in Pakistan, Hoping for Resettlement to US

17th August, 2023 · admin

VOA News Aline Barros August 16, 2023 ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON — Sitting on the carpet in a small, third-floor apartment of a crowded building on the edge of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, six Afghan men sip traditional green tea as they scroll through messages and videos on their phones. All of them are anxiously awaiting the same thing

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Afghans Waiting to Resettle in US Have Priority Under This Program

16th August, 2023 · admin

Aline Barros VOA News August 16, 2023 WASHINGTON — Two years ago, when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul closed and the U.S. military evacuated more than 100,000 Afghans in a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. A significant number of evacuees who worked for the U.S. government during the war are still

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Turkish police arrest 64 illegal Afghan immigrants

7th August, 2023 · admin

Khaama: According to Turkish officials on Sunday, 64 Afghan refugees in Arzantan City who had entered Turkey illegally were detained. These illegal Afghan immigrants were the most recent in the growing number of arrests of people with similar offences after they were found hiding in a truck containing electronic devices. This incident occurred on the

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, Turkey-Afghanistan Relations |
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