Pakistan expels over 6,500 Afghan migrants in 24 hours
On Monday, Pakistani media announced that within the last 24 hours, authorities in Pakistan expelled an additional 6,584 Afghan migrants. The detention and deportation of Afghan migrants lacking residency documents from Pakistan persist. ARY News Pakistan has reported that thousands of migrants are consistently departing from Pakistan through border crossings into Afghanistan. Meanwhile, according to […]
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On Monday, Pakistani media announced that within the last 24 hours, authorities in Pakistan expelled an additional 6,584 Afghan migrants. The detention and deportation of Afghan migrants lacking residency documents from Pakistan persist.
ARY News Pakistan has reported that thousands of migrants are consistently departing from Pakistan through border crossings into Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, according to Bilal Karimi, the deputy spokesperson of the Taliban administration, since September 17, 2023, up to the present day, approximately 200,000 individuals, organized into 35,000 families, have chosen to return to their homeland via the Torkham border crossing.
He added that in the last six days, commencing November 1st, 15,270 families have opted to journey back to their home country.
According to Pakistani media, with the widespread expulsion of “illegal” Afghan migrants, temporary transit camps have been established in various regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.
Pakistan has officially announced that it is conducting a search operation for Afghan migrants without documents throughout the country.
According to the announced statistics, Pakistan hosts more than four million Afghan migrants, of whom approximately 1.7 million do not possess residency documents.
Just two days ago, 7,135 Afghan migrants were sent to Afghanistan through the Torkham border crossing.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations of Afghanistan reported on Sunday the presence of more than 120,000 Afghan migrants at border points. It stated that all of them had been forcibly expelled from Pakistan.
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