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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]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghan migrants are facing deportation from Pakistan to the Taliba n-ruled country that some of them have never even visited.. In a ...
As of the end of 2022, Pakistan hosted more than 1.3 million registered Afghan refugees and 427,000 people in “refugee-like situations” from Afghanistan, according to the United Nations ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan on Thursday gave a last warning to all immigrants in the country illegally, including hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals, to leave voluntarily before a Nov. 1 ...
U.N. agencies have reported a sharp increase in Afghans returning home since Pakistan launched a crackdown on people living in the country illegally. Pakistan earlier this month said it will ...
A total of 380,884 Afghan refugees left Pakistan for Afghanistan in 2016. [32] Most were born and raised in Pakistan but are still counted as citizens of Afghanistan. [5] The UNHCR reported in June 2023 that 1,333,749 registered Afghan refugees still remained in Pakistan.
Pakistan insists the campaign is not against Afghans specifically, though they make up most of the foreigners in the country. As Pakistan cracks down on illegal migrants, nearly half a million ...
The Taliban's acting commerce minister said he had asked Pakistan to help return the assets of expelled Afghans and discussed ways to overcome Afghanistan's stalled banking sector transactions ...