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In late 1988, roughly 3.3 million Afghan refugees were housed in 340 refugee camps along the Afghan-Pakistan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was reported by The New York Times in November 1988 that about 100,000 refugees lived in Peshawar and more than two million lived in KP (known as the North-West Frontier Province at the time).
Over 6 million Afghan refugees were residing in Iran and Pakistan by 2000. [4] Most refugees returned to Afghanistan following the 2001 United States invasion and overthrow of the Taliban regime. [5] [6] [7] Between 2002 and 2012, 5.7 million refugees returned to Afghanistan, increasing the country's population by 25%. [8]
By September 2008, their number had reached 20,000, [6] and about 70% of the refugees were Pakistanis while the rest were Afghans who had settled in Pakistan during the last 20 or so years. [7] More Pakistani refugees went to Afghanistan after the 2010 Pakistan floods. As of 2015, around 221,432 Pakistanis are found living in Afghanistan.
An Afghan refugee woman gives her fingerprints at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees repatriation center in Azakhel, Nowshera, Pakistan, on October 30, 2023. - Fayaz Aziz/Reuters/File
The international rights group Amnesty International called on Pakistan’s government Tuesday to stop what it described as random arrests of Afghan refugees, including those with Pakistani visas.
Afghan migration to Pakistan dates back to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, which led to over three million Afghans seeking refuge in Pakistan. [11] Significant waves of Afghan refugees also came to Pakistan after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and in 2021 when the Taliban returned to power following the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. [12]
Pakistani police are arresting Afghan women and children in southern Sindh province as part of a government crackdown on migrants, activists said Saturday. More than 250,000 Afghans have left ...
The channel was launched in 2005 [1] by Afghan-American entrepreneur Ehsan Bayat, the owner of Afghan Wireless. ATN began broadcasting internationally in 2006 and offers terrestrial coverage in all 34 provinces of Afghanistan. Bayat Media Center located in Kabul, Afghanistan Ariana Television and Ariana FM Coverage Map across the country