Over 7,000 Afghan Migrants Voluntarily & Forcibly Returned to Afghanistan

The Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees announced that on Monday, more than 7,000 migrants returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan and Iran.

According to the ministry, 3,572 of these immigrants were forcibly deported from Pakistan.

Pakistan had said that by November 1, all Afghan refugees without valid residency documents should return to Afghanistan.

In the past weeks, hundreds of Afghan migrants were arrested and forcibly deported to Afghanistan.

Most of these people are immigrants who fled to Pakistan after the Taliban’s takeover of power in Afghanistan in August 2021.

At the same time, Human Rights Watch stressed that the government of Pakistan should end the police abuse of Afghan refugees and stop forced deportations.

This organisation asked Pakistan to cooperate with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to resume the registration of Afghan refugees.

Human Rights Watch also asked the United States, UK, Germany, and Canada to speed up the resettlement of Afghans at risk, including human rights activists, journalists, the LGBTQ community, women, and girls.