The registration of Afghan citizens living in Pakistan has been extended, says the minister for state and frontier regions. The exercise called Documentation Renewal and Information Verification Exercise (DRIVE) for undocumented Afghans will continue until the end…
Analysts and participants of Pajhwok’s Tanazor programme on Twitter stressed the need for serious talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the mistreatment and arrest of Afghan refugees. They urged relevant international organisations to put pressure on Pakistan to…
More than 44,000 Afghan refugees have been beaten and illegally expelled by Turkish authorities, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. Turkey is routinely pushing tens of thousands of Afghans back at its land border…
Afghanistan has strongly condemned Pakistani police unfair behavior with Afghan refugees and demanded Islamabad to ensure the prevention of such incidents in the future, according to a statement on Thursday. Recently, Afghan refugees have been harassed and misbehaved…
About 8,659 Afghan refugees returned to the country from Iran during the past two days, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Wednesday. The ministry wrote on its Twitter page that 8659 Afghan refugees returned to the…
Former president Hamid Karzai has expressed sorrow and concern over the detention of hundreds of Afghan refugees including women and children in Pakistan’s Sindh province. A statement issued from the former president’s office said Karzai asked Pakistan to…
Nearly 5000 Afghan refugees returned from Iran during the past two days, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Monday. On its twitter page, the ministry said 4,822 Afghan refugees returned to the country from Iran through…
Pakistan released another 84 Afghans who had been arrested for lacking legal stay documents in Karachi, the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad said on Wednesday. Karachi police have arrested dozens of Afghan refugees for staying illegally in the country.…
Iran continued to forcibly expel Afghan refugees as more than 2,300 refugees returned from the neighboring country in two days. The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation in a statement said more than 2,300 refugees returned to the country…
About 315 more Afghan refugees have arrived in Canada on a charter flight from Pakistan, the Ministry of Immigration in Ottawa said on Thursday. Minister of Immigration and Refugees Sean Fraser tweeted: “Today, another charter flight from Pakistan…
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation says more than 3,700 Afghan refugees have returned from Iran including over 1,900 people forcibly expelled during the past three days. The ministry in a statement said 1,598 Afghan refugees returned to…
Around 252,000 Afghan refugees returned from Iran and Pakistan during the ongoing solar year, including 135,000 forcibly expelled by Iranian authorities.
Pakistan has released some of Afghan refugees, including women and children, after they were arrested for lacking legal stay documents in Karachi, the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad said on Friday. In a tweet, the Afghan Embassy said Pakistani…
Nearly 16,000 Afghan nationals, who do not have legal documents, have been registered in Islamabad, police say. The objective behind documenting 15,835 Afghan citizens is part of a police drive to curb the crime rate in the federal…
More than 320 Afghan refugees have landed in the Manitoba province of Canada, says a media report. Aboard a charter flight from Pakistan, 324 Afghans reached Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba, on Friday morning. The Afghan refugees would…
More than 1860 Afghan refugees returned to the country from Iran yesterday, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Friday. Of the returnees, 537 were expelled by authorities in Iran and 1325 returned on their own free…
Iranian authorities have deported 869 Afghan refugees while some voluntarily returned to the country, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Tuesday.
A year after the US withdrawal from their homeland, around 1.5 million Afghan refugees still prefer to stay in Pakistan. Released on Monday, a UN report said Pakistan remained the largest refugee-hosting country in Asia and the Pacific.…
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation says in the last two days, more than 2,600 Afghan refugees living in Iran and Pakistan have returned to their homeland voluntarily and forcibly. The MoRR said that according to the information…
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MoRR) on Thursday said 534 Afghan refugees returned to the country voluntarily or forcibly expelled from neighboring Iran and Pakistan. In a statement, the MoRR said these Afghan refugees returned to the…
Kabul on Monday urged Tehran to treat Afghan refugees more humanly and provide them with facilities. Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai met with Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan Bahadur Aminian here, a statement from the Afghan Ministry…
Iran has expelled 597 Afghans and started their headcount, sparking concerns among refugees, the government said on Monday. The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said the refugees were expelled from the neighbouring country on Saturday. Earlier, Iran…
As their protest in Islamabad entered the 6th day, Afghan asylum-seekers say the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has not yet addressed their problems. Dozens of Afghan refugees in Pakistan have been protesting in Islamabad over…
A delegation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will visit Iran soon for talks on the problems being face by Afghan refugees in the neighbouring country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday Foreign Minister Amir…
