RASC News Agency: The Ministry of Migrants Affairs of the Taliban has announced that more than 96,000 migrants have been expelled and forcibly returned to Afghanistan from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey in the past month. Quoting Ava News Agency, the ministry added that all expelled individuals have been deported forcibly from the mentioned countries.
“Abdul Rahman Rashed,” an official from the Ministry of Migrants Affairs of Afghanistan, told the media on Tuesday, Mar 5, that in February, 96,490 Afghanistani migrants have been expelled and returned to the country from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. He added, “We have committees at the borders providing migrants with food, non-food items, and winter clothing and then transferring them to their respective provinces.” He also mentioned that each family is given 10,000 kabuli rupees in cash assistance.
According to statistics, approximately one and a half million Afghanistani migrants have been forcibly expelled and returned to the country from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey since the beginning of the year 1402. The World Health Organization has declared that since the implementation of the plan for the forced expulsion of illegal migrants from Iran and Pakistan, one million two hundred thousand migrants have been returned to Afghanistan.
Iran and Pakistan announced on September 15 of the previous year that they would expel illegal migrants and refugees. Pakistan gave illegal migrants and refugees until November 1, to leave Pakistan. Iran, without giving migrants any deadline, began the process of detention and forced deportation, which continues intensely.
