FT: Over the past year, Iran and Pakistan have sent an estimated 3mn Afghans back after decades and sometimes lifetimes in exile, according to the UN, 150,000 alone in the past six weeks. Afghanistan’s population is up 12 per cent from 40mn in 2023, when Islamabad and Tehran began mass deportations. More are to come. Iran and Pakistan are scaling up deportations of their Afghan populations, a huge logistical, economic and humanitarian challenge for a country wracked by widespread poverty after four decades of war and ruled by the hardline Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).