Khaama: Turkish media reported on Saturday, January 4th, that 24 individuals from Afghanistan who intended to enter Turkey were detained by Turkish police in Ağrı. According to reports, these individuals were detained by the Turkish police at the exact moment they were trying to enter Turkey using a motor vehicle from the Iran-Turkey border. Click
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 4, 2024 Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says 541,000 Afghans have left for Afghanistan as Islamabad’s campaign to repatriate some 1.7 million “undocumented foreigners” continues, despite international concerns for their safety and means to shelter upon their return. Since its push began in October, Pakistan has extended a December deadline to February 29,
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 27, 2023 Pakistan has sent scores of Afghans back to their country despite their possessing documents confirming they are being considered for resettlement to the United States. The expulsions are part of a broader Pakistani crackdown on more than 1.7 million “undocumented foreigners,” who are predominantly Afghans. Nearly half a million
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 23, 2023 ISLAMABAD — Only 12 children around the world have been paralyzed by wild poliovirus so far this year, all of them in Pakistan and Afghanistan — with six reported in each. They are the last two countries in which the highly infectious disease still exists. Moreover, the World Health
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 20, 2023 Thousands of Afghans who were detained in Pakistani and Iranian prisons have been sent back to Afghanistan as Islamabad and Tehran ramp up the expulsion of Afghan citizens. In Karachi, the capital of the southern Pakistani province of Sindh, the Taliban’s consul-general, Abdul Jabbar Takhari, said that over 3,000
Khaama: Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, has highlighted the security issues faced by Pakistan, citing advice from the Taliban administration of Afghanistan to “look inwards.” In response, Pakistan has begun deporting illegal refugees. “No responsible government can ignore such concerns. Whenever we raised this with the interim Afghan government, they advised us to ‘look
As many as 1,500 Afghans were airlifted to Poland after the Taliban retook Kabul in August 2021, and many say they face economic hardship in the country and are no longer receiving help from the state. They say Poland has prioritized support for the 1.6 million Ukrainians taken in since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Farkhunda Paimani Roshan Noorzai VOA News December 15, 2023 WASHINGTON — Edris Niazi had “a normal life,” back in Kabul, working as a government employee, but his life “turned upside down” after the Taliban seized power in 2021. Niazi, 32, is now working as a welder in Turkey’s Kayseri province with “no future,” as he fears
Al Jazeera: The Pakistani government has announced that undocumented Afghans awaiting paperwork to resettle to a third country will be allowed to stay in Pakistan for two more months. The extension of the deadline on Wednesday from the end of this year to February 29 comes amid Pakistan’s drive to expel more than one million