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Belgium said on Monday it had issued five visas to a Taliban delegation to attend an EU meeting on migration in Brussels, for what would be the first time the EU has hosted the group since the Islamists returned to power five years ago. “These are visas with limited territorial validity and limited duration: only…
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U.S. Air Force service members stand at a doorway as Afghan evacuees prepare to board an aircraft at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. File photo: U.S. Air Force via AP The Taliban Government said on Saturday (April 25, 2026) that Afghans who fled to Qatar, fearing reprisals over their collaboration with U.S. forces, may return…
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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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Afghan nationals board a bus as they arrived in Germany from Pakistan at Hannover Airport, after legal and diplomatic pressure pushed Germany to resume a scheme that allows the entry of vulnerable Afghans, in Hannover, Germany, September 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A group of 45 Afghans who fled the Taliban arrived in Germany…
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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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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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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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