A delegation from the European Union, led by Sarah Rinaldi, met with Khalil Rahman Haqqani, acting minister of refugees and repatriation, on Wednesday and pledged 4.5...
A total of 2,371 illegal immigrants, including 1,700 Afghans, in Pakistan’s Sindh province have been deported so far, local authorities have announced. Sindh Caretaker Minister for...
Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs Abdulsalam Hanafi on Thursday called on the Pakistani government to reconsider its decision to expel Afghan refugees, saying the decision...
The United States “strongly” encouraged Afghanistan’s neighbors, including Pakistan, to allow entry for Afghans seeking protection and urged them to uphold obligations in treatment of refugees,...
Pakistan should immediately cancel plans to deport 1.4 million Afghan nationals back to their country, UN experts said on Tuesday. The government of Pakistan, which has...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said in a statement Saturday that the 4th meeting of the Consular Affairs Commission between the Islamic Emirate and Iran...
Balochistan’s Caretaker Information Minister, Jan Achakzai, has said undocumented Afghan refugees will be expelled from the province without exception but said 25 families are voluntarily returning...
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti Friday warned illegal immigrants in Pakistan to leave the country by the November 1 deportation deadline or the state would show...
Mohammad Qasim Khalid, the governor of Kabul, has compared the governments of Iran and Pakistan to Israel because of their treatment of Afghan refugees. “The governments...
The Ministry of Migration said Monday that more than 3,000 Afghan migrants returned home on Sunday. The ministry said 3,061 Afghan immigrants returned to their homeland...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and IOM, the UN Migration Agency, on Saturday appealed to Pakistan to continue its protection of all vulnerable Afghans who have...
Acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Amir Khan Muttaqi has told his Pakistani counterpart that mistreatment of Afghan refugees can adversely affect...
Despite repeated promises of the Pakistani authorities, the arrest and harassment of Afghan refugees by the police in Pakistan continues, Afghan embassy in Pakistan said on...
Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai on Wednesday called on countries in the region and beyond to stop spreading “negative propaganda” against...
U.N.’s High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi met on Thursday with Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on the margin of the...
Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, political deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said in a meeting with the Iranian parliamentary delegation on Monday that...
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced Wednesday that the bodies of 800 Afghan refugees have been repatriated from a number of countries in the past...
Sher Mohammad Abbas Stankzai, political deputy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a meeting with Cihad Erginay, the Turkish ambassador in Kabul, said on Sunday...
Local officials in Spin Boldak port of Kandahar province say that dozens of Afghan families return from Pakistan to their country through the port every day....
Iran’s interior minister has said that more than five million Afghan refugees who are currently residing in Iran are not a security challenge for Tehran. “The...