More than 135,000 Afghans left Pakistan in April, while the number dropped to 67,000 in May, and more than 3,000 were sent back in the first two days of June, according to the ministry. Millions of Afghans have poured into Pakistan over the past several decades, fleeing successive wars. Hundreds of thousands have come since […]
According to the Interior Ministry, 3,268 illegal and undocumented Afghans were also repatriated via the Torkham border crossing. Since April 1, 2025, at least 3,053 Afghan refugees with Afghan Citizen Cards have been deported. Of these, 160 were deported from Islamabad, 1,980 from Punjab, and one from Gilgit-Baltistan. In total, since September 2023, 484,975 Afghan […]
The Philippines and the United States signed an agreement last July allowing possibly hundreds of Afghans to stay in Manila while their US Special Immigrant visas were being processed. This was despite domestic opposition in the Catholic-majority country over security and other concerns. “The DFA issued the appropriate Philippine entry visa to these applicants in […]
