Pakistan kicks off tens of thousands of Afghans

Pakistan deported more than 19,500 Afghans this month, among more than 80,000, which left ahead of April 30, the UN reports.

Pakistan has accelerated his desire to expel unregistered Afghans and those who had a temporary resolution, saying that it could no longer cope.

700 to 800 families are deported daily, Taliban officials say, and up to two million people are expected in the coming months.

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Izhak gift arrived in Kabul on Saturday for talks with the Taliban officials. His colleague Amir Khan Mutaki expressed a “deep concern” about deportations.

Some expelled Afghans at the border, they were born in Pakistan after their families escaped with the conflict.

According to the UN refugee agency, more than 3.5 million Afghans live in Pakistan, including about 700,000 people who came after the Taliban absorbed in 2021. According to estimates, half are undocumented.

Pakistan has taken the Afghans later in the decades of the war, but the government states that a large number of refugees are now at risk of national security and is pressuring public services.

Recently, there was a splash of the border forces of both parties. Pakistan blames them for militants based in Afghanistan.

The Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said both sides “discussed all issues that are of mutual interest” at the Saturday meeting in Kabul.

Pakistan has extended the deadline for unregistered Afghans to leave the country until the month until April 30.

At the border crossing of Torkham, some expelled Afghans told the BBC that they left Afghanistan decades ago – or never lived there.

“I have lived in Pakistan all my life,” said Said Rahman, a second-generation refugee who was born and raised in Pakistan. “I got married there. What should I do now?”

Saleh, the father of the three daughters, worried that the life of the Taliban management would mean to them. His daughters studied at the Penjab province of Pakistan, but in Afghanistan, girls over 12 are forbidden to do so.

“I want my children to study. I don’t want their years at school to go for a waste,” he said. “Everyone has the right to education.”

Another man said the BBC: “Our children have never seen Afghanistan, and I don’t even know what it looks like more. We may need a year and more to get a job and find a job. We feel helpless.”

At the border, men and women pass through individual gates, under the hours of armed Pakistani and Afghan guards. Some of those returning were elderly – one man was moved to a stretcher, the other in bed.

Military trucks closed families from the border to temporary shelters. Those who come from distant provinces stay there for several days, waiting for transport to their home regions.

Families based under the canvas to avoid heat 30 ° C when the dust is wound and mouth. The resources are stretched, and the hard arguments are often escaped from the shelter’s access.

Get from 4000 to 10,000 Afghan (from 41 to 104 pounds) from Kabul’s management, reports heylayatulding to Hedatla Shinwwar, a member of the financial financial committee.

Mass deportation exerts significant pressure on the fragile infrastructure of Afghanistan, and the economy in the crisis and the population are approaching 45 million.

“We resolved most of the issues, but the arrival of people in such a large number, of course, has difficulties,” said Bakht Jamal Hohar, the head of the Taliban refugee case at the intersection. “These people left decades ago and left all their things behind. Some of their homes were destroyed over 20 years of war.”

Almost every family told the BBC that the Pakistani border guards restricted what they could bring – a complaint that has responded to some human rights groups.

In response, Chadhr said that there was “no policy that prevented Afghan refugees from taking home use.”

One man who was sitting on the road in a brilliant sun said his children had asked to stay in Pakistan, in the country where they were born. They were given a temporary residence, but it ended in March.

“We will never go back now. Not after we have been treated,” he said.

Additional report by Daniel Wittenberg and Mallora Moencha