6,584 immigrants return to Afghanistan in 24 hours

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials said Tuesday that 6,584 Afghan nationals living in Pakistan returned home in the last 24 hours.

These immigrants returned through Chaman and Torkham border crossings, officials said.

The authorities have established temporary transit camps for returning migrants in various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.

This is in addition to the thousands of Afghans who crossed into Afghanistan on Sunday. Thousands more are meanwhile waiting to cross at the Torkham border.

This comes after Pakistan ordered all undocumented Afghans to leave the country by November 1.

On Saturday 7,135 Afghan citizens returned to Afghanistan from Torkham border crossing, Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees (CAR)
said in a statement.

Mostly Afghan nationals staying in Pakistan as undocumented immigrants. Repatriation of the illegal Afghans through the Chaman and Torkham borders has been underway.

Last month, caretaker minister of interior in Pakistan, Sarfraz Bugti directed the authorities to formulate a comprehensive strategy for the deportation of foreigners residing illegally in Pakistan.