The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday about 6,000 Afghans were currently being held in the country’s prisons. ISNA news agency quoted Alireza Mahmoodi, Consular Director General of Iran's Foreign Ministry, as writing on X that…
The US provided refuge to 115,000 Afghan nationals since summer 2021 when Kabul fell, a senior official has said: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas in a statement on Tuesday said: “Two years ago, President Biden directed…
The Afghan Consulate in Karachi says Pakistani authorities have released another 75 undocumented Afghan nationals from prisons and they have been sent to their home country. Abdul Jabar Takhari, acting head of the Afghan Consulate in Karachi, wrote…
More than a dozen Afghan citizens have been detained during raids in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi. The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) said 13 Afghans living illegally in the city were arrested in Mauripur and Machhar Colony on…
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on Saturday announced the arrival of 192 Afghan refugees in a chartered flight to Canada from the United Arab Emirate (UAE). Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, tweeted: “Today, a…
At least 78 people from Afghanistan and Pakistan were confirmed to be among those killed in last week’s shipwreck off the coast of Greece, the Afghanistan Embassy in Italy said. The fishing trawler that capsized on Wednesday was…
The Afghan embassy in Islamabad says 45 undocumented Afghan nationals have been released from prisons in Pakistan. The Afghan mission tweeted that with efforts of the Afghan consulate in Karachi, 25 Afghan nationals were released from jails in…
More than 2,000 Afghan refugees returned from Iran yesterday (Saturday), the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Sunday. At least 2,106 Afghan refugees came back to the country via Islam Qala in western Herat province, the…
Six Afghans have reportedly died of suffocation due to a gas leak in a green tea shop in Qarchak city of Tehran province in neighboring Iran. The incident happened Monday morning and the dead included two women, reported…
The first group of 43 Afghans, who were evacuated to Saudi Arabia from conflict-hit Sudan, reached Kabul on Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. MoFA deputy spokesman Zia Ahmad Takal wrote on his Twitter page that the…
Efforts are being made to evacuate stranded 120 Afghans in Sudan where fighting resumed after a failed Eidul Fitr ceasefire, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Maulvi Amir Khan Muttaqi says. A 72-hour truce fell through in Sudan as…
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) says about 215 Afghan nationals released from Pakistani jails have returned to the country. The ministry tweeted that these Afghan refugees returned to the country through the Spin Boldak crossing in…
Deputy Labor and Social Affairs Minister Maulvi Din Mohammad Haqbin on Tuesday urged the United Nations and international organizations to implement projects in Afghanistan that could help professionally train the Afghans in various fields. Haqbin echoed the demand…
The Afghan Embassy in Italy says 48 Afghans who died in Feb 26 shipwreck have been identified. A boat carrying 180 migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia crashed against rocks on the southern Italian coast in Crotone city…
Eighty Afghans, including women and children, have lost their lives when their wooden boat drowned in the southern Italian sea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said on Wednesday. MoFA Spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi on his twitter handle…
Five Afghan nationals have been detained with fake passports at the Peshawar airport, says the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The Afghans were arrested on Wednesday when they were to board an international flight for London on fake passports…
Eighty Afghan nationals were killed in Monday’s earthquakes that rattled Turkey and Syria, the Afghanistan Embassy in Ankara confirmed on Friday. The two successive strong earthquakes shook southeastern Turkey and western Syria, killing more than 16,000 people and…
The Afghan Embassy in Turkey has sent a delegation to the earthquake-devastated areas of the country to learn the situation of Afghans living there and casualties they suffered. Mohammad Mussadiq Faqiri, deputy of the Afghan embassy in Ankara,…
Forty Afghans from five different families have been freed from a jail in Pakistan’s Sindh province, the government announced on Tuesday. As a result of efforts by the Afghanistan Embassy in Islamabad, a Karachi court ordered the release…
At least 120 Afghan nationals have been released from prisons in the Sindh province of Pakistan, the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad said on Wednesday. The embassy tweeted that about 120 Afghan citizens were freed on Tuesday as a…
Pakistan has released 303 more Afghan citizens, including 63 women and 71 children, from jails in Sindh province. The Afghans were freed as a result of joint efforts by the Foreign Office, the Afghan consulate in Karachi and…
Pakistan has decided to deport illegal Afghan citizens after they serve their prison sentences. The Sindh Home Department confirmed on Saturday the release of about 530 Afghan nationals after they completed their two-month jail terms. Documents from the…
As many as 129 illegal female Afghan nationals with 178 children have been hailed in Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh province. A provincial minister said this on Friday in reaction to widespread criticism sparked by a photograph of Afghan minors…
The office of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has said 350 more Afghan nationals were evacuated last Friday to that country. The IRCC, in a series of tweets said, the Afghan immigrants were evacuated last Friday. “The…
