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Homeland insecurity: Expelled Afghans seek swift return to Pakistan
- Pakistan has expelled more than one million Afghans over the past two years, with some 200,000 crossing back since April 2025 amid renewed deportations.
- The deportations stem from Pakistan’s policy to reduce Afghan presence, while many Afghans prefer to risk illegal return due to dire conditions in Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan’s poverty, strict Taliban rule, and restricted education for girls contribute to weak reintegration, leading some deported Afghans to remigrate to Pakistan.
- One man mentioned he paid 50,000 rupees to a truck driver who crossed the border using a Pakistani employee’s ID, noting that the authorities in this area treat them more leniently compared to Lahore.
- These movements suggest ongoing instability and underscore challenges in sustaining livelihoods for deportees in Afghanistan, prompting repeated border crossings.
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Homeland insecurity: Expelled Afghans risk reentry to Pakistan to escape Taliban rule
PESHAWAR (Pakistan), June 19 — Pakistan says it has expelled more than a million Afghans in the past two years, yet many have quickly attempted to return — preferring to take their chances dodging the law than struggle for existence in a homeland some had never even seen before. “Going back there would be sentencing my family to death,” said Hayatullah, a 46-year-old Afghan deported via the Torkham border crossing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province …
Homeland insecurity: expelled Afghans seek swift return to Pakistan
Pakistan says it has expelled more than a million Afghans in the past two years, yet many have quickly attempted to return — preferring to take their chances dodging the law than struggle for existence in a homeland some had never even seen before. “Going back there would be sentencing my family to death,” said Hayatullah, a 46-year-old Afghan deported via the Torkham border crossing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in early 2024. Since April and a renewed…
Homeland Insecurity: Expelled Afghans Seek Swift Return to Pakistan
Pakistan says it has expelled more than a million Afghans in the past two years, yet many have quickly attempted to return -- preferring to take their chances dodging the law than struggle for existence in a homeland some had never even seen before. "Going back there would be sentencing my family to death," said Hayatullah, a 46-year-old Afghan deported via the Torkham border crossing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in early 2024.
Peshawar - In almost two years, Pakistan claims to have expelled more than one million Afghans.
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