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The mass deportations primarily affected those Afghans who fled to Pakistan after Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. There were an estimated 3.8 million Afghans in Pakistan at the time the deportation order was announced, according to the United Nations, while Pakistani authorities believed the number to be as high as 4.4 million.
Between 2010 and the end of 2012, a reported 229,000 Afghan refugees returned from Pakistan. Some Pakistani officials have estimated that 400,000 non-registered Afghans may be residing in their country. A total of 380,884 Afghan refugees left Pakistan for Afghanistan in 2016.
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.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghan migrants are facing deportation from Pakistan to the Taliba n-ruled country that some of them have never even visited.. In a ...
Pakistan has been a haven for Afghan refugees since millions fled Afghanistan during the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation, creating one of the world’s largest refugee populations.
Religion. Sunni Islam (majority) Shia Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism (minorites) 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 ...
The Pakistani government attributes this to the Afghan Taliban providing safe harbor to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has launched numerous attacks. In response to these security concerns, the Pakistani government has announced that all undocumented migrants and refugees, including hundreds of thousands of Afghans, must leave ...
Islam ( Sunni and Shia) Afghans in Iran ( Persian: افغان ها در ایران) are citizens of Afghanistan who are temporarily residing in Iran as refugees or asylum seekers. They form the largest percent of the Afghan diaspora. The first wave of Afghans crossed into Iran after the start of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979.