Pakistan Deports Over 3,000 Afghan Refugees In Single Day

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.

The organisation said that 114,000 people who were affected by the recent earthquake in Herat need life-saving health care.

In a statement on Thursday, WHO stated that over 90 percent of the casualties in the Herat earthquake comprise women, girls, boys, and other vulnerable communities.

According to the organisation, at least 40 health centres in nine districts of Herat have been damaged resulting in disruptions in accessing health services for 58,000 people.

Earlier, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced that a total of USD 93.6 million is needed to deal with the Herat earthquake victims in different sectors.

The World Food Programme had also announced that it needs 19 million dollars for emergency aid to assist tens of thousands of Herat earthquake victims.

The United Nations said that more than 43,000 people were directly affected by the Herat earthquake and more than 3,330 houses were destroyed.