RASC: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has published figures on the situation of Afghanistani refugees in the world and internally displaced persons, saying that millions of Afghanistani people have been forcibly displaced in the world.
The statistics of this United Nations agency show that around 9.2 million Afghanistani have been forcibly displaced in the world, and of these, approximately 5.6 million are Afghanistanis who are in a situation similar to refugees.
Also, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said that 3.25 million people have been displaced inside Afghanistan.
Although this United Nations agency has not stated the reasons for the displacement of Afghanistani people, war, unemployment, achieving a better life and escaping the revenge of the Taliban are the things that have forced Afghanistani citizens to leave their country.
According to statistics, most Afghanistani citizens fled to Iran and Pakistan after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021.
Asifa Stanikzai, head of an organization supporting Afghanistani immigrants in Iran, says that after the regime change in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of Afghanistani citizens left their country for foreign countries, especially Iran and Pakistan.
Stanikzai said: “The cause of these migrations includes many economic, cultural; security and political factors, and restrictions for women are also another cause of these migrations.”
She also said that most of the Afghanistani citizens who immigrated to neighboring countries after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, do not want to stay in these countries, but want to live in these countries temporarily and then go to Europe, Canada and America.
However, the officials of the Taliban group called the encouragement of Western countries to go abroad as the main reason for the migration of Afghanistani citizens and claimed that the goal of these countries is to withdraw specialist forces from Afghanistan in order to confront this country with the problem of professional labor.
Officials of the Ministry of “Immigrants and Returnees” of the Taliban group have said that over the past 20 months, one million and 300,000 Afghanistani immigrants have returned to Afghanistan from Iran, Pakistan and some European countries.
