He was eating dinner with his family when the knocking began. Like many Afghans, Omid, a translator, had fled from Afghanistan in 2021 after the Taliban took over. He and his family snuck across the ...

Pakistan has announced the expansion of its ongoing drive to expel undocumented refugees, saying it will soon also begin deporting millions of Afghans living legally in the country back to Afghanistan ...

Pakistan is extending the stay of nearly 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees – but its mass deportation of “illegal immigrants” will continue, authorities said. Afghan refugees in Pakistan with ...

Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old daughter scream from the balcony. The girl had seen police approach her ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Large numbers of Afghans crammed into trucks and buses in Pakistan on Tuesday, heading to the border to return home ahead of the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for ...

In the heart of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, nestled between towering buildings and affluent neighborhoods, lie slum communities inhabited primarily by Christian families. These settlements, often ...

Migrants from Afghanistan living illegally in Pakistan, many of whom fled the Taliban takeover, have been given four weeks to leave. By Zia ur-Rehman and Christina Goldbaum Zia ur-Rehman reported from ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 3 (UNHCR) - The government of Pakistan and the UN refugee agency on Thursday launched a report on the registration of Afghan citizens in Pakistan, offering important baseline ...

In October 2023, the Pakistani government announced that it would arrest and deport hundreds of thousands of unregistered foreign nationals and migrants lacking proper documentation. The deadline was ...

Over two million Afghan refugees remain in Pakistan despite more than 1.8 million returning since 2023 under the Illegal Foreigners’ Repatriation Plan. Border tensions and deportations continue, while ...