RASC News Agency: More than 2,293 Afghanistani families were expelled from neighboring countries in a single day, according to figures released by Taliban-controlled outlets. The group’s propaganda arm, Bakhtar News Agency, citing the Taliban’s self-styled “Commission for Refugee Affairs,” claimed the deportations included 1,300 families through Torkham in Nangarhar, 238 via Spin Boldak in Kandahar, 124 through Pul-e Abrisham in Nimroz, 26 from Bahramcha in Helmand, and 605 through Islam Qala in Herat.
This latest wave of expulsions comes only two days after more than 2,000 other families were pushed back into Afghanistan, underscoring a dramatic escalation in deportations by both Iran and Pakistan. The numbers reveal not only the growing vulnerability of Afghanistani migrants in the region but also the increasing inability of the Taliban to cope with a crisis that is spiraling far beyond their control.
Families recount harrowing ordeals. Many deportees reported being subjected to violent treatment, humiliation, and degrading abuse by security forces in host countries. They were often denied the opportunity to gather possessions, forced to abandon their homes and livelihoods, and pushed across the border carrying little more than a few personal items. At border crossings, thousands of families many with small children now languish in makeshift shelters, exposed to hunger, illness, and extreme weather without meaningful assistance.
Inside Afghanistan, their plight grows even more severe. With no sustainable jobs, housing, or access to basic healthcare and education, deported families are confronting destitution. Humanitarian organizations warn that the sheer scale of the forced returns is overwhelming already fragile aid networks, leaving thousands stranded without food, shelter, or medical care. The Taliban, despite their promises of governance, have demonstrated neither capacity nor willingness to manage the crisis.
Iran and Pakistan, for their part, have accelerated their campaigns of expulsion in defiance of repeated calls from human rights groups to halt such actions. With tens of thousands more Afghanistani migrants at risk of removal, rights defenders caution that Afghanistan is now on the brink of yet another humanitarian disaster.
Analysts note that the deportations have laid bare the Taliban’s complete inability to provide even the most basic protections to its citizens. Stripped of international legitimacy and mired in economic collapse, the group continues to use its media machinery to downplay the scale of suffering, while ordinary Afghanistani families bear the brunt of regional politics and authoritarian neglect.
Human rights observers emphasize that these deportations are not merely numbers on a ledger but an indictment of the Taliban’s failed governance. Families who return to Afghanistan find not a state willing to protect them, but a repressive regime preoccupied with religious policing and consolidating power. The unfolding crisis is not only a tragedy for displaced Afghanistani citizens but also a damning reminder that under Taliban rule, Afghanistan remains a nation abandoned to instability, repression, and despair.
