After the decision of the Pakistani administration to return irregular migrants, half a million citizens of that country returned to Afghanistan.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, stated that the number of irregular Afghan migrants returning to their country from Pakistan has decreased recently, but that there are still those who decide to return.
He confirmed that half a million Afghan citizens have returned to their homeland after Pakistan launched an operation to expel undocumented migrants.
Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti, the interior minister of Pakistan’s interim government, said in his latest statement that 482.000 irregular Afghan migrants have returned to their country.
After the Taliban came to power, there were security problems between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Pakistan’s interim government announced last year that it would deport all undocumented foreigners after October 31st.
The United Nations (UN), human rights organizations, and Afghanistan’s Taliban-led interim administration have called on Pakistan to reverse its decision. Islamabad said the interim government had no plans to extend the deadline and that all foreigners would be deported regardless of their nationality.
Pakistan has received a large number of Afghan refugees since the Soviet invasion of the neighboring country in 1979.
According to the UN Human Rights Office, more than two million undocumented Afghans live in Pakistan, including at least 600.000 who left Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.
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