RASC News Agency: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has announced that nearly four million Afghans are currently living in Pakistan.
This international organization said that 600,000 of them have gone to Pakistan since the Taliban regained control over Afghanistan in the past two years.
According to the report of the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, citing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of Afghanistani refugees in Pakistan has reached 3.5 million in June 2023.
Qaisar Khan Afridi, the spokesperson of this commission, said that the government of Pakistan has distributed identity cards to about 1.3 million other refugees in addition to new immigrants.
At the same time, the asylum seekers in Pakistan are dealing with many problems, including the risk of arrest, extortion, abuse and deportation.
According to a number of sources, the identity card distributed by the government of Pakistan and the United Nations has either expired or is not accepted by the Pakistani police in many cases.
This is despite the fact that since two years, not only Pakistan, but also a number of neighboring countries, including Iran, have witnessed a huge wave of Afghanistani immigrants who have left their country for various reasons.
At the same time, it should be mentioned that the main destination of many immigrants was other than the neighboring countries, but due to the non-acceptance or prolongation of the acceptance process by the countries mainly America, Canada, European countries and Australia, the stay of Afghanistani asylum seekers in the neighboring countries became longer.
