Ayaz Gul VOA News November 1, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has started rounding up and deporting undocumented foreigners — including 1.7 million Afghan nationals — following a one-month deadline for voluntary departure that expired Wednesday. Authorities have reported that nearly 250,000 Afghans have returned to their home country voluntarily in the run-up to the November 1
Scroll.in: The predominantly Shi’ite community are reviled by the Sunni Taliban as infidels. Sadiq, an ethnic Hazara, fled Afghanistan last year because he was attacked and beaten by the members of the Taliban regime. Now, the 25-year-old faces expulsion from Pakistan and he fears a return to his home country could amount to a death
By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi November 1, 2023 Pakistan on November 1 began rounding up undocumented foreigners, the vast majority of them Afghans, hours ahead of the deadline for them to evacuate the country. The country’s Interior Ministry said in a statement before the midnight deadline that “a process to arrest the foreigners…for deportation” had begun, but that
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 31, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Tens of thousands of Afghan migrants on trucks and other vehicles rushed to the border Tuesday, the last day of an official deadline for all foreigners without legal status to depart Pakistan voluntarily or face arrest and forcible expulsion. Pakistani officials have reported that refugee families, many
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 30, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said Monday that almost 200,000 Afghan nationals voluntarily returned to Afghanistan over the past two months ahead of an official deadline for all illegally residing foreigners to leave or face deportation. The Pakistani government has ordered “illegal/unregistered foreigners” and those “overstaying their visa validity periods” to
Lisa Schlein VOA News October 29, 2023 GENEVA — U.N. agencies are warning that Pakistan’s planned expulsion of more than a million “undocumented” foreign nationals risks triggering a human rights catastrophe. They are appealing to Pakistani authorities to suspend these deportations as a November 1 deadline looms for the forcible return of 1.4 million Afghan nationals
Sidra Dar VOA News October 27, 2023 KARACHI, PAKISTAN — It was an emotional scene at Sohrab Goth bus terminal when Jannat Bibi, a 50-year-old Afghan woman, bid farewell to the only home her children have ever known. After 35 years in Karachi, she and her eight children were making the difficult journey back to Afghanistan.
UN News: OHCHR is urging the authorities to halt deportations, which are set to begin on 1 November, Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told journalists in Geneva. Currently, more than two million undocumented Afghans are living in Pakistan, at least 600,000 of whom arrived after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021. “We believe many of
8am: Local Taliban officials have announced the forced expulsion of more than 12,000 Afghan refugee families from Pakistan within the last 37 days. Mawlawi Samiullah Samoon, the director of the Taliban’s migrant registration at the Torkham border, stated on Thursday, October 26th, that these families were forcibly deported by the Pakistani government. According to him,
Khaama: Afghans constitute the largest immigrant community in Iran, mirroring a similar situation in Pakistan. In recent weeks, Iran and Pakistan have escalated the deportation of Afghan immigrants, reflecting a growing concern over immigration and border control. Official statistics indicate that around five million Afghans currently reside in Iran. Furthermore, Iran’s Deputy Minister of Justice