Migration

Washington and Manila have agreed on allowing a limited number of Afghan nationals to transit to the Philippines to complete their visa processing for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) and resettlement to the US.

Deputy minister of public health in the previous government Faizullah Kakar has returned to the country from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Commission to Contact Afghan Personalities (CCAP) announced on Tuesday.

Construction work has been launched on 40 residential houses for returning refugee families in Sholgara district of northern Balkh province, an official said on Saturday.

The Torkham crossing has reopened for trade and passengers after four days ofclosure, officials announced on Thursday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): As many as 1.87 million Afghans returned to the country from Iran, Pakistan and other countries during the past one year, the .

Six Afghans have been released from a jail in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, the Afghan Consulate said on Sunday.

Construction of houses for 110 returning and internally displaced families has been started in northern Jawzjan province, the provincial Refugees and Repatriation Department said Saturday.

The United States has appreciated Pakistan’s decision on extending the stay of registered Afghan refugees for another year.

The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) has expressed concerns over the ill-treatment of Afghan refugees in Iran, fueled by disturbing pictures circulating on social media.

An Iranian security official has stressed that illegal immigrants should leave Iran by the end of this year at a time when a video of the torture of an Afghan immigrant has sparked reactions in the neighboring country.

The caretaker government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has asked Iranian authorities to extradite the remaining Afghan prisoners, an official said on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) has rejected the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) report in which stated that nearly eight million Afghans migrated since 2020.