Taliban Asks Pakistan To Reconsider Decision to Deport Afghan Refugees

Jan Achakzai, caretaker Minister for Information and Public Relations for Balochistan province, said that the efforts of the Pakistani government to deal with the issue of illegal immigrants have gained momentum.

He stressed that the deadline of November 1 not only applies to Afghan refugees but also to all illegal immigrants living in the province.

Earlier, Sarfraz Bugti, interior minister of the interim government of Pakistan, warned that the country will not compromise on this decision after the deadline.

Meanwhile, Express Tribune also reported that the special branch has been given the task of identifying illegal immigrants living across Balochistan.

Pakistani officials said that so far more than a thousand Afghan families have been returned to Afghanistan through the Chaman border.

Sadyr Japarov, the president of Kyrgyzstan, ordered the delivery of humanitarian aid to residents of Pamir region.

Kyrgyz News Agency 24 reported that a number of medical workers had also been dispatched to the area. They examined and provided assistance to 600 local residents.

According to the report, Kyrgyz veterinary specialists vaccinated hundreds of animals, including 700 cows in Pamir, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

In addition, Kyrgyzstan held a training course for the prevention of various diseases in the Pamir region.

These measures were taken after the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry last year had said that Kyrgyz people residing in the Pamir region of Afghanistan were facing dire living conditions and falling ill to an unidentified virus.

At the same time, Radio-Television Afghanistan, controlled by the Taliban, reported that in two weeks, Pamir residents were infected with an unknown disease and 21 people had died.

One of the residents of the Great Pamir region said that they have no facilities and that the residents have to walk for three or four days to reach a medical center.

The Pamir region, which is divided into two parts, the Little Pamir and Great Pamir, is located in Wakhan, Badakhshan province, in the northeast of Afghanistan.

After the Taliban’s takeover of power in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan’s concern regarding the well-being of Kyrgyz residents in Afghanistan increased.

The Foundation of Nisar Ahmad Faizi Ghoryani said on Thursday that these two cases of polio were registered in the Jibrail area of Herat city.

On X social media platform, Ghoryani wrote that these two polio-affected children have been transferred to the capital of Herat.

Previously, "Polio Free", a global organisation committed to eradicating polio had warned about the rapid spread of polio cases in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries that have not been able to eradicate polio.

Pakistan has set a deadline for more than one million Afghan immigrants without legal documentations to leave the country in 10 days. Meanwhile, Iranian Interior Minister has also said that "illegal" Afghan immigrants should leave Iran.

While the Iranian authorities are addressing the challenges posed by Afghan immigrants, there has also been a concerning surge in anti-Afghan sentiments within the country. As per reports, incidents of violence against Afghan immigrants have occurred in Qazvin province.

Mattew Miller, spokesperson for the US State Department, said, “We strongly encourage Afghanistan’s neighbours, including Pakistan, to allow entry for Afghans seeking international protection, and to coordinate with international humanitarian organisations such as UNHCR and IOM to provide humanitarian assistance."

Through the first flight, 121 passengers travelled from Mazar-e-Sharif Airport to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The Taliban’s ministry on X social media platform said this is for the first time that flights between Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia have started.

Kam Air said that these flights will operate once a week from Mazar-e-Sharif airport to Jeddah city.