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Nearly 40,000 Afghan refugees leave Pakistan’s Balochistan province

November 1, 2025 admin

The authorities have fastened the deportation measures by ordering the closure of around 54 Afghan refugee camps across Pakistan. File | Photo Credit: Reuters More than two years after Pakistan started a crackdown against Afghan nationals, nearly 40,000 of them have left Balochistan capital Quetta, a top provincial official has said. Since October 2023, when…

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‘We decide who stays,’ says Pakistan after UN plea over mass expulsion of Afghans

September 5, 2025 admin

Afghan nationals travel with their belongings in a truck, as they head back to Afghanistan after Pakistan started to deport Afghan refugees, near Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan’s government on Friday (September 5, 2025) said “we decide who stays,” after the United Nations refugee…

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Pakistan wants to expel all Afghan refugees from the country, says Afghan embassy

February 19, 2025 admin

Afghan refugees seen in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan. File. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan wants to remove all Afghan refugees from the country and they face expulsion in the near future, the Afghan embassy in Islamabad warned Wednesday. The embassy issued a strongly worded statement about Pakistan’s plans, saying…

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44,000 Afghans in Pakistan waiting for relocation to Western nations: Pakistan government

July 11, 2024 admin

Police officers, along with workers from the National Database and Registration Authority, check the identity cards of Afghan citizens during a door-to-door search and verification drive for undocumented Afghan nationals, in an Afghan Camp on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan said on July 11 that it was hosting at…

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Pakistan says 1.45 million Afghan refugees can stay for another year

July 10, 2024 admin

A worker from the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), along with police officers, speaks to an Afghan citizen while checking identity cards, during a door-to-door search and verification drive for undocumented Afghan nationals, in an Afghan Camp on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan, November 21, 2023. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan announced on…

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Taliban calls for more time for Afghans to leave Pakistan

November 1, 2023 admin

Afghan refugees arrive in trucks to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham on October 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Afghanistan’s Taliban government has urged Pakistan to give undocumented Afghans in the country more time to leave as pressure mounts at border posts swarmed by thousands of returnees fleeing the threat of deportation. The Pakistani…

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Pakistan sets up deportation centres to hold migrants who are in the country illegally

October 26, 2023 admin

Local residents and Afghan nationals during a protest rally in the southwestern border town of Chaman, Pakistan, on October 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan is setting up deportation centres for migrants who are in the country illegally, including an estimated 1.7 million Afghans, officials said on October 26. Anyone found staying in the…

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Pakistan government says crackdown on illegal immigrants not aimed at any nationality

October 5, 2023 admin

Afghans wait inside the passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 30, 2021. File | Photo Credit: AP A day after the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan slammed Pakistan’s decision to expel its undocumented nationals and termed it “unacceptable”, Islamabad on Thursday clarified that its ongoing operation against illegal immigrants was not targeted against people of…

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