Iran & Pakistan Expel 2,000 Afghan Refugees In Single Day
The Taliban's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced on Sunday that over two thousand Afghan refugees were returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan in a single day.
The ministry stated that 324 Afghans were expelled from Pakistan and 1,773 from Iran. According to the ministry, women and children were among these refugees.
The expulsion of Afghan refugees from Iran and Pakistan has significantly increased in recent months, with hundreds of Afghans being deported daily from these two countries.
Officials in Pakistan and Iran have claimed that they are deporting Afghans without valid residency documents back to Afghanistan. However, some returned refugees have reported that they were forced to return despite having legal residency documents.
Many Afghans were forced to leave their country and migrate to Iran and Pakistan following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. Some of these refugees sought refuge in Pakistan and Iran at the request of Western countries to process their immigration cases.
It is reported that among the refugees being returned from Iran and Pakistan to Afghanistan, there are some former government employees and military personnel who fled the country out of fear of Taliban retribution.
