The Canadian Immigration Ministry has announced that it will provide $15 million in financial aid to support vulnerable Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Central Asian countries....
Iran’s special representative and ambassador to Afghanistan, Hassan Kazmi Qomi, met with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, on Wednesday and...
Nearly half a million Afghans who were living in Pakistan without valid documents have returned home in just over two months as part of an ongoing...
Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday criticized the expulsion of illegal Afghan refugees from the country. “1.5 million refugees are not much of...
Pakistan’s former foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, has said that the caretaker government should have consulted all relevant stakeholders on the forced expulsion of Afghan refugees. In...
Pakistan Supreme Court’s Justice Ayesha A. Malik on Friday observed that Pakistan was bound by the United Nations conventions that protected the rights of refugees. She...
Pakistani authorities have committed widespread abuses against Afghans to compel their return to Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Police and other officials have carried...
Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has said all illegal as well as legal Afghans living in Pakistan will be prohibited from funding any political and electoral activities —...
A three-judge bench of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, led by Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and comprising Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Ayesha Malik, will address a Constitutional...
The World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan has said it urgently needs $27.5 million to support refugees returning from Pakistan. WFP in a statement warned that...
The US State Department has launched an emergency hotline for Afghans facing deportation or detainment in Pakistan who are in a US immigration and resettlement pathway....
The Islamic Emirate’s deputy prime minister Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi and other officials visited Spin Boldak in Kandahar on Sunday where they met with refugees who...
Pakistan’s interim government will deport all illegal Afghan refugees by January next year, Balochistan Information Minister Jan Achakzai said on Friday. “The caretaker government is trying...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday appealed for $10 million to provide essential health services and ensure health care access for a targeted 700,000 Afghan...
Pakistani President Arif Alvi said his country has carried a huge burden in hosting Afghans for nearly four decades. In an interview with VOA Urdu, Alvi...
Pakistan on Monday opened three new border crossings to accelerate the repatriation of undocumented Afghan nationals who have been ordered to leave the country or face...
Amnesty International on Monday called on Pakistan to immediately stop deporting Afghans. According to Amnesty International, Afghan refugees in Pakistan are facing mass detentions and deportations....
Former Pakistan’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has questioned the “strong-arm” tactics used to deport illegal Afghan immigrants and called for “distinguishing between terrorists and people”. Talking...
The government of Pakistan must immediately halt the continued detentions, deportations and widespread harassment of Afghan refugees, Amnesty International said on Friday. According to Islamabad, more...
While condemning the forced expulsion of refugees and their mistreatment by Pakistan, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, deputy foreign minister for political affairs, on Monday warned the...