Over 8,000 Afghan migrants forced to return from Pakistan, Iran

INTERNATIONAL DESK: As the deportation of Afghan refugees continues to remain a hot topic these days, over 8,000 Afghan migrants have been forcefully deported back from Pakistan and Iran, Khaama Press reported.

The number of Afghan people being deported from Pakistan and Iran has been confirmed by the Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation of Afghanistan.

The Ministry said in a news release on Thursday that as of 24 October, 5,196 Afghan migrants have been forcibly sent back to Afghanistan through the border crossings at Turghandi and Spin Boldak.

Officials from the border administrations in Nangarhar and Kandahar state that 676 families totalling 4,606 people were sent back to Afghanistan by force via the Turghandi crossing.

Furthermore, 209 other families with a total of 1,190 individuals were returned across the Spin Boldak border. As of Monday, October 23, some 3,310 Afghan migrants had both voluntarily and involuntarily repatriated from Iran, according to the border official in Islam Qala, reported Khaama Press.

In the past, Pakistan and Iran had announced their intentions to remove Afghan individuals entering their countries without the appropriate legal papers. Significant national and worldwide reactions were sparked by this statement.

The practice of repatriating Afghan citizens from Pakistan and Iran continues, despite the significant uproar these decisions caused. The resolve of these nations to carry out their deportation plans highlights the intricacies pertaining to the position of Afghan migrants and their role in the region’s larger immigration debate, Khaama Press reported. (ANI)