Aline Barros VOA News December 25, 2022 More than a year after the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Afghan families totaling more than 88,500 individuals have resettled in the United States through different immigration paths. Some have access to permanent residence while the rest have permission for short-term stays without the
Khaama: Afghan refugees in Pakistan have received warnings from the government of Pakistan that if they stay in the country beyond the specified period with no legal residence permit either from the host country or the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), they will face serious consequences. Over the past months, this is the
The Guardian (UK): An imprisoned Afghan refugee wrongfully accused of smuggling people into Greece has been told he can walk free in a trial that activists hope will set a precedent for thousands of others in similar situations. After a marathon day of proceedings, an appeals court sitting on the Aegean island of Lesbos ruled
Khaama: Following the removal of the Special Immigration Visa extension from the Senate version of the defense spending bill, the Democrats, veterans, and advocacy groups criticized the republican lawmakers for the decision. “The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) fails our Afghan allied, today. The Senate removed a provision to extend the Afghan SIV program as
The Afghan actor Ali Danish Bakhtyari, who played the role of an orphan in the 2007 film “The Kite Runner,” has fled the Taliban rule in his home country twice: first in the late 1990s, and then in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. Keith Kocinski has the story from
Ariana: Turkey is routinely pushing tens of thousands of Afghans back at its land border with Iran or deporting them directly to Afghanistan with little or no examination of their claims for international protection, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’”
پاکستانی پولیس کا مجبور افغان باشندوں سے ظلم کی انتہا جو بیچارے نہایت تنگ دستی میں علاج معالجہ کے لیے گئے ہیں مگر ان کو جانوروں کی طرح رسی سے باندھ کر ہانکا جارہا ہے۔ اگر افغانستان میں ایک خودمختار حکومت ہوتی تو پاکستان کے متعصب پولیس پشتون دشمنی میں افغانوں سے یہ ظلم نہ
8am: On Saturday, November 12, Anadolu Agency, quoting Turkish government officials as report that 57,174 Afghan citizens have been returned to their country this year. After the Taliban took over the control of the country, thousands of Afghan citizens have tried to reach Turkey through various routes, including Iran. Click here to read more (external
Daily Sabah: An investigation was launched after Turkish police found the bodies of five Afghan nationals with stab wounds in a house in the capital Ankara on Thursday. The five bodies were found after family members contacted police and reported the five to be missing, Anadolu Agency said. Afghans are believed to be the second-largest
Khaama: Based on the media reports, over 1,100 Afghan refugees including women and children have been arrested and imprisoned in Sindh state of Pakistan, Hamid Karzai tweeted on Monday. The former Afghan President, Hamid Karzai has expressed his concerns about the mistreating of Pakistan’s government with the Afghan refugees and has called on Pakistan’s administration