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Afghanistan
Punjab Orders Arrest of Undocumented Afghan Migrants
DID Press: Maryam Nawaz, Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, has ordered the arrest of all Afghan nationals residing in the province without valid legal residency documents. According to published reports, the directive applies to Afghan migrants who lack valid…
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Afghanistan
Nearly 2,000 Afghans Expelled from Tajikistan in 2025
DID Press: Afghanistan’s Permanent Mission in Geneva has called on Tajikistan to ensure the fair examination of asylum applications submitted by Afghan nationals and to refrain from forcibly returning people at risk. According to figures from the United Nations High…
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Afghanistan
Pakistan Says More Than 2.8 Million Afghans Have Been Deported
DID Press: Pakistani officials say a total of 2,807,250 Afghan nationals who were residing in the country illegally have so far been returned to Afghanistan. According to authorities in Punjab province, 143,474 of those individuals were deported from the province.…
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Afghanistan
UN Refugee Chief Warns of Difficult Conditions Facing Afghans Returning Home
DID Press: Nearly seven million Afghans have returned to Afghanistan from neighboring countries since late 2023, many of them under difficult circumstances and through forced returns, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said. Barham Salih, the UN High…
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Afghanistan
A Blind World to Afghanistan’s Silent Crisis
DID Press: Remarks by Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, that Afghanistan’s human rights situation is deteriorating further have once again painted a troubling picture of the country’s humanitarian and human rights conditions. But the significance…
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Afghanistan
Pakistan Returns 2.59M Afghan Migrants Under Deportation Campaign
DID Press: Pakistani authorities say approximately 2.59 million Afghan nationals have been returned to Afghanistan since the launch of the country’s deportation campaign in 2023, adding that the removal of undocumented migrants will continue. Officials from Pakistan’s Punjab province said…
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