RASC News Agency: The “Bakhtar News Agency”, under Taliban control, has reported that on Friday, September 13, Iran and Pakistan forcibly and voluntarily deported 355 Afghanistani migrant families. According to the report, these migrants re-entered Afghanistan through border crossings in the provinces of Nangarhar, Kandahar, Nimroz, and Herat.
The Taliban-run agency further detailed that 29 families returned via the Torkham border crossing, while 31 families crossed through Spin Boldak. Moreover, 75 families entered Afghanistan via the Delaram Silk Road border, and an additional 220 families returned through the Islam Qala crossing.
Several families returning from Pakistan complained that Pakistani authorities confiscated all their belongings, leaving them with nothing upon their forced return to Afghanistan. Simultaneously, statistics from the UNHCR show that since August 2021, when the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, over 600,000 Afghanistani citizens have sought refuge in Pakistan.
In contrast, Iranian officials, during a meeting on September 3 attended by Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s special envoy for Afghan affairs, introduced a new plan to address the influx of Afghanistani migrants. Additionally, Mojtaba Abdollahi, the governor of Iran’s Alborz province, recently disclosed that in the past year alone, over 50,000 Afghanistani migrants have been expelled through this province.
