Ariana: Islamabad is expected to start the second phase of forced deportations of Afghan refugees from Monday, April 15. According to reports this phase will also include the deportation of Afghans who have residency permits. This will apply to refugees who have ACC documents, Afghan citizenship card, and POR or certificate of registration with the
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 8, 2024 ISLAMABAD — The World Health Organization said Monday that the recent return of about 600,000 undocumented migrants from Pakistan to Afghanistan and an estimated 200,000 unvaccinated children in southern Afghan regions are a threat to regional gains against polio. In its latest assessment of the disease’s international spread, WHO
Khaama: The Special Representative of the United Nations in Afghanistan says that the forced expulsion of Afghan migrants by neighbouring countries is against international migration laws. This comes as, over the past year, the process of forced expulsion of Afghan migrants from neighbouring countries, especially Pakistan and Iran, has intensified, with hundreds of thousands of
Khaama: The Turkish police have announced that 40 Afghan asylum seekers were detained during an inspection of cargo trucks in the city of Amasya. Turkish media reported on Saturday, March 30th, that these refugees had concealed themselves in a food-carrying truck travelling from the city of Ağrı to Istanbul. Click here to read more (external
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi March 28, 2024 Amnesty International has urged Pakistan to halt expelling hundreds of thousands of Afghan girls and women to neighboring Afghanistan. “The deportation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan will put women and girls at unique risk,” Amnesty’s South Asia Office wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on March 27. The global rights watchdog’s plea
Tolo News: “The Iranian police treat us very badly. If they catch any Afghan in the park or on the road, they take away his phone and money, everything he has, and if he has nothing on him, they transfer him to a camp,” Akbar Sultani, one of the Afghan migrants in Iran, told TOLO
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi March 20, 2024 Pakistan is set to force some 850,000 documented Afghan refugees back to their country next month if they don’t leave voluntarily. According to reports in Pakistani media, the expulsions, the latest in an ongoing campaign of forced deportations, are scheduled to begin on April 15. The News, an English-language
By Michael Scollon Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 19, 2024 Afghans are being pushed back, fenced out, and left to fend for themselves in the face of Taliban persecution and widespread hunger. Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghans have been kicked out of neighboring countries and forcibly returned to Afghanistan in recent months. Millions more are
Khaama: The Ministry of Interior of Pakistan has instructed the Punjab provincial government to initiate the second phase of the expulsion of Afghan citizens starting from April 15th. According to reports from Pakistan’s international media, in this phase, holders of “Afghan Citizenship Cards” will be deported from the country. Sources mentioned that the federal government
Al Jazeera: Trading guns for hair clippers and dumbbells, they’ve had to desert their dreams, as their government deserted them. Click here to read more (external link).