Over 3000 Afghans Return from Pakistan To Afghanistan In Last 3 Months, Says Taliban

Nangarhar Directorate of Refugees and Repatriation announced that in the last three months, about 3,800 Afghan refugees have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan.

In recent months, Pakistan has detained thousands of Afghan refugees and deported some of them to Afghanistan.

Earlier, a Taliban border official said that Pakistan has allowed Afghan refugees to cross the borders of the two countries without holding passports, and only with an Afghan identity card.

Esmatullah Yaqoob, the Taliban commissioner in Torkham, said that these Afghan refugees can return to Afghanistan till the end of June 2023.

With the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 and the influx of Afghan refugees to Pakistan, the Pakistani police have repeatedly arrested and deported these refugees in the past two years.

Pakistani authorities argue that according to Article 14 of the Foreigners' Registration Law in this country, people who stay in Pakistan without travel documents and visas are accused of violating the law.

It has been reported that the Pakistani police have detained and deported some Afghan citizens despite having documents from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Pakistan.

At the same time, reports indicate the inappropriate behaviour of the Pakistani police towards Afghan refugees.