Afghan refugees

The Women’s Freedom Movement has called for an end to the detention of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, and has demanded immediate action on the same, Khaama Press News Agency reported …

Taliban officials on Sunday urged Pakistan to prepare a joint mechanism for the gradual repatriation of refugees. Taliban officials further said that forced deportation is in the interests of neither …

Pakistan has stepped up its efforts to repatriate legal Afghan refugees, with a focus on those holding Afghan Citizen Cards, reported ARY News. The government aims to send back around …

The Afghanistan embassy in Pakistan warned that the government wants to remove all Afghan refugees from the capital, Islamabad, and the adjoining city of Rawalpindi, Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday. …

In an unprecedented move, the Caretaker Government in Pakistan, led by former lawmaker Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, had announced 1.7 million Afghan refugees to leave by November 1. The caretaker Prime Minister as …

Pakistan is using “threats, abuse, detention and coercion” to throw out Afghan refugees as the deadline for them to voluntarily leave the country expired on November 1. Alarmed with plight …

The announced crisis has finally arrived in the camps of Afghan refugees languishing in Pakistan for years. Irked over Afghan Taliban government’s non-cooperation in curbing anti-Pakistan militancy and the country’s …

As an enraged Pakistan presses on with the deportation of Afghan refugees, it has set up detention camps in various parts of the country to hold ‘undocumented Afghan refugees’. The …

The Taliban interim government in Afghanistan has slammed Pakistan’s decsion to expel refugees as  “inhumane, unfair and barbaric”. Interim Defence Minister, Mullah Yaqub Mujahid, also said that Islamabad’s decision will adversly …

Afghans are facing yet another crisis in Pakistan. Irked over Afghan Taliban’s refusal to rein in Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) cadres operating from Afghan soil and increasing suicide attacks in the country, …

Escalating tension with the neighbouring Taliban government, Pakistan has decided to evict all of Afghan refugees – numbering 1.1 million. The move, the first major policy decision of the interim …

Afghanistan is planning to relocate refugees from its common border with Pakistan – the Durand Line, to other provinces deeper in the country. The spokesperson for the Taliban government, Zabiullah …

Afghan refugees are arriving in Mexico and Brazil in hundreds with a view to entering the US and also Canada for a life away from conflict and persecution. One-and-a-half years …

Tensions are building up between Afghanistan and Pakistan over the harsh treatment being meted out to Afghan refugees recently. Pakistan is reportedly detaining Afghans who hold official UNHCR refugee status …

The Bulgarian police has arrested six people after 18 Afghans were found dead in a truck parked on a dirt track outside Bulgarian capital Sofia on Friday. The truck was …

The horrific bomb blast at the Kaaj Learning Centre in Kabul which left 53 dead – mostly girls– has only made the 400 odd Afghan refugee students studying at the …