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A Top Taliban Official Offers Amnesty to Afghans Who Fled the Country and Urges Them to Return
- On June 7, 2025, the head of Afghanistan’s Taliban government extended an amnesty to those who left the country, encouraging their return during his Eid al-Adha address in Kabul.
- This announcement followed the Taliban’s swift seizure of Kabul and most of Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, which triggered a mass exodus to neighboring Iran and Pakistan.
- Akhund encouraged returnees to settle again in their native homeland and experience peaceful living conditions, while directing officials to provide appropriate assistance and shelter for refugees and condemning the media for inaccurate criticisms of the Taliban.
- The amnesty announcement came shortly after President Trump imposed a broad travel restriction affecting a dozen nations, Afghanistan among them, and halted a key refugee program in January 2025, actions that severely limited opportunities for Afghan resettlement in the United States.
- The Taliban’s assurance that Afghans who left the country following the fall of the previous government supported by the West will not face harm is intended to motivate displaced individuals to return and rebuild their lives in Afghanistan despite existing difficulties.
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Taliban Urges Afghans Who Fled to Return
A top Taliban official said Saturday that all Afghans who fled the country after the collapse of the former Western-backed government are free to return home, promising they will not be harmed if they come back. Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund made the amnesty offer in his message for...
Top Taliban official promises Afghans who fled the country will not be harmed if they return - Washington Examiner
The Taliban‘s Prime Minister, Mohammad Hassan Akhund, vowed on Saturday that any Afghans who fled the country after the collapse of the Western-backed government are welcome to return without fear of harm. Akhund made the offer of amnesty during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, also known as the “Feast of Sacrifice.” More than a million Afghans are estimated to have left the country after the Taliban took it over in 2021. “Afghans who have lef…
Taliban official urges Afghans who fled the country to return
A top Taliban official said on Saturday that all Afghans who fled the country after the collapse of the former Western-backed government are free to return home, promising they would not be harmed if they come back.
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