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Afghan citizens returning from Pakistan in 2004. Since 2002, the UNHCR has repatriated 4,388,058 Afghan refugees from Pakistan to Afghanistan.. In 2005 the government of Pakistan began registering all Afghans, and the number of registered Afghans was reported at 2.15 million in February 2007.
Afghan migration to Pakistan dates back to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, which led to over three million Afghans seeking refuge in Pakistan. Significant waves of Afghan refugees also came to Pakistan after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and in 2021 when the Taliban returned to power following the US troop withdrawal from ...
Between 2002 and 2012, 5.7 million refugees returned to Afghanistan, increasing the country's population by 25%. Afghanistan is one of the largest refugee-producing countries in the world. A total of 6.3 million Afghan refugees were allocated in Pakistan and Iran in 1990.
As of the end of 2022, Pakistan hosted more than 1.3 million registered Afghan refugees and 427,000 people in “refugee-like situations” from Afghanistan, according to the United Nations ...
More than 10,000 Afghans living in Pakistan rushed to the borders on October 31, just hours before a deadline for 1.7 million people to leave Pakistan voluntarily or face arrest and deportation.
The first charter flight to relocate Afghan refugees living in Pakistan has arrived in the UK. The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that the first flight, carrying 132 Afghans, left the ...
Afghan diaspora refers to the Afghan people that reside and work outside of Afghanistan. They include natives and citizens of Afghanistan who have immigrated to other countries. The majority of the diaspora has been formed by Afghan refugees since the start of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979; the largest numbers temporarily reside in Iran.
"The behavior of Pakistan towards Afghan refugees is unacceptable," Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban administration in Kabul, said in a post on the social media platform X ...