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Pakistan’s foreign office in a statement on Tuesday said “a productive discussion on all aspects of bilateral relation was held” during Bass’ visit, following a trip to Islamabad by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi a week earlier.Raisi’s visit came after Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel on April 15 involving ...

GENEVA —  Changes are being urged to plans for returning thousands of Afghan citizens from Pakistan to make the process more effective. While Pakistan has delayed the expulsion of some 850,000 documented Afghan refugees to Afghanistan, a senior Red Cross official is appealing for the returns to occur "in ...

Zahab* wakes up and brews her three children some tea. They crowd around on the floor in the one room apartment she rents in Islamabad, Pakistan. The day is beginning but they have nowhere to go. They dare not leave the apartment at all because they fear they will ...

On November 1, Pakistan began a nationwide operation to deport over 1.7 million Afghans it says are living in the country illegally. There are now an estimated 10,000 people returning to Afghanistan each day.Pakistan has indicated the deportations are designed to reduce cross-border incursions from Taliban fighters based in ...

ISLAMABAD: More than 400,000 Afghans returned to their home country following the ongoing crackdown on illegal foreigners in the country, Pakistani authorities said Monday. Zabihullah Mujahid, chief spokesperson of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, confirmed the number and told The Associated Press that the majority have been using the ...

islamabad —  Pakistan announced Friday that it had extended, after a delay of four months, the legal residence status of about 1.4 million Afghan refugees until year-end, though it again rejected calls to halt deportations of all undocumented Afghans and other foreign nationals. The announcement comes as a relief ...

Several human rights bodies have criticised Pakistan's decision to deport Afghan migrants from the country. Source link

NEW DELHI: Taliban have issued a stern warning to Pakistan over its treatment of Afghan refugees amid Islamabad's sweeping anti-migrant crackdown.The Taliban-ruled Afghanistan has asked Pakistan not to be "cruel" to the Afghans leaving the country.The statement comes after Pakistan asked all undocumented refugees to leave the country, including ...

#Pakistan News More than 165,000 Afghans have fled Pakistan in the month since its government ordered 1.7 million people to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said Thursday. The majority rushed to the border in the past several days as the Nov. 1 deadline approached and police began ...

#Pakistan News Hundreds of thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan faced detention and deportation Wednesday, as a government deadline for them to leave sparked a mass exodus. The government has given 1.7 million Afghans it says are living illegally in the country until Nov. 1 to leave voluntarily or ...