By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Nov 3, 2023The head of the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan criticized Pakistan’s treatment of Afghan migrants, stating that Islamabad should consider the consequences of its unilateral decision regarding migrants. Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid, the head of the Ministry of Defense, called on Islamabad to cease the harassment, mistreatment, and confiscation of Afghan migrants’ properties in the country, as such actions have no legal basis. He stated, “The Pakistani…
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By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 1, 2023The Interim government of Afghanistan has condemned the mass expulsion of Afghan refugees from Pakistan, calling it “inhumane.” They have warned that if the Pakistani government does not address this issue, they will be forced to take action in response. Shir Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban administration, in his latest statements regarding Pakistan, has issued a warning and…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 01, 2023 at 10:02 PMWith the arrival of the November 1 deadline for Afghan migrants to leave Pakistan, some lawyers say that the interim government should be limited to just advancing the daily affairs of the country. The analysts said that the interim government should not make decisions that are controversial. “In Pakistan’s law when an interim prime minister come into power, they cannot do things like this, this is…
Reuters in The Express Tribune, Oct 31st, 2023.KARACHI: As the clock ticked down to the Nov. 1 deadline Pakistan set for undocumented migrants to leave the country, Muhammad Rahim boarded a bus from Karachi to the Afghan border. “We’d live here our whole life if they didn’t send us back,” said the 35-year-old Afghan national, who was born in Pakistan, married a Pakistani woman and raised his Pakistan-born children in the port city – but…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press Online, Oct 30, 2023On Monday, a group of Afghan migrants protested outside the office of the United Nations Human Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Islamabad. These protests coincided with the Pakistani government’s impending deadline to expel undocumented migrants from the country. The protesters, which include defence lawyers, journalists, human rights activists, and individuals vulnerable to the Taliban, argue that the UNHCR hasn’t properly examined their cases over the last…
report in Khaama Press online, Oct 3, 2023Pakistani police have detained more than a thousand Afghan migrants in the last two weeks, according to the Afghan embassy in Islamabad. In a statement issued Tuesday, the embassy reported that some of these detainees lost their lives while in custody, and their bodies were discovered in hospitals and various other locations. The Taliban embassy emphasized that despite repeated promises from Pakistani authorities, the “arrest, harassment, and mistreatment”…
report in Khaama Press online, Sept 16, 2023The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has condemned the detention and mistreatment of Afghan migrants in Pakistan. They accuse the Pakistani government of extorting money from migrants and committing crimes against them. In a statement released by the TTP, they claim that Afghans’ involvement in recent attacks in the Chitral region of Pakistan is untrue and baseless. The group accuses the Pakistani government of extorting and taking bribes from Afghan…
report in Prothom Alo, Aug 29, 2023Nearly 24.5 per cent families have left villages for towns due to lack of scope of work there while over 20 per cent left the rural areas with the hope of something better. Crisis in agriculture production has made the rural people internal migrants, finds a study ‘Poverty in urban areas in Bangladesh’. The research findings were presented in a seminar ‘Urban poverty in Bangladesh: Land, Migration and Basic…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, June 25, 2023Nearly 230 Afghan migrants have been deported from different cities in Turkey, according to Turkish media outlets. According to reports, most deported Afghan refugees were undocumented and illegal migrants. Based on the reports, the Turkish authorities have emphasized that they will continue identifying illegal asylum seekers in the eastern city of Agri, Turkey. Earlier, the General Directorate of Migration of Turkey announced that it had…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, May 31, 2023 at 10:16 PMThe acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in an event held to meet family members of the 18 Afghan migrants who died while being smuggled into Bulgaria, described the sanctions imposed by foreign countries as “cruel”. “The world countries should listen, they should not pursue their cases under the pretext that these people are being harmed here. They should not damage the Afghan academic figures.…