Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees who gathered in Pakistan’s capital for the search in other countries were ordered to move somewhere else in Pakistan by March 31.
Refugees arrived in large numbers in the capital, Islamabad and in neighboring Rawalpindi for embassies and refugee agencies. Forcing them to go somewhere else in the country are intended to pressure the Western states, including the United States, to accept them quickly.
The announcement of the Pakistani government, published last week, said that Afghan refugees who could not find a country that would take them would be deported to Afghanistan, who was welcomed by the Talibani, although she did not say how quickly it would happen after March 31.
The command added the fear and uncertainty that refugees face, especially 15,000 who have applied to move to the United States. Days earlier, President Trump has led the doubt of that Afghan fate with executive commands suspending all refugee recognitions to the United States.
Many of these Afghans worked with a mission under the leadership of the United States in their country, or with non -governmental organizations or other organizations financed by Western countries, before the Taliban took over power in August 2021. Other members of the Afghans’ family who did so. The advocates of these refugees accused the US government of issuing war allies by blocking their paths to relocation.
The UN -OD Refugee Agency, UNHCR and the International Migration Organization said on Wednesday that many refugees threatening to deportation – especially members of ethnic and religious minority groups, women and girls, journalists, activists for human rights – could be subjected to the persecution of the Taliban government. In a joint statement, they invited Pakistan to “implement any movement measures with the duty to consider human rights standards.”
Sara Ahmadi, 26, a former journalism student at Kabul University, said her family feared she was deported to Afghanistan – “the very places we risked everything to leave” – since Trump’s administration stopped the reception of refugees.
“That fear now becomes a reality,” Mrs. Ahmadi said in a telephone conversation. Her mother worked in the capital of Kabula, Afghanistan, for children in crisis, a non -governmental organization that finances the United States. Their six -member family arrived in Islamabad in November 2021, hoping that they would eventually settle in the United States.
Were among the hundreds of thousands Afghans who fled Pakistan after downloading Taliban.
The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shafqat Ali Khan, recently said that almost 80,000 Afghan refugees left Pakistan in other countries, and that about 40,000 who had applied for the relocation elsewhere in Pakistan.
This includes approximately 15,000 who were waiting for the approval of the Refugee Refugee Program for the United States when Mr. Trump suspended it. A three -month suspension came into force on January 27; Trump’s administration did not indicate whether the relocation would eventually continue.
Pakistan forced hundreds of thousands of other Afghanists – both documented and unfathomable migrants, and even some who arrived in Pakistan for moving to Western countries – back to their home country because of Growing tension with taliban.
Pakistan accuses Taliban of drawing up Pakistani militants who behave cross -border attackswhich the Taliban denies. Pakistani authorities also often accuse Afghan nationals of involvement in terrorism.
UN Refugee Refugee Agency said the International Migration Organization said that from January 1st, from January 1st, there was an increase in the arrest of Afghan citizens in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and more than 800 Afghans, including children, deported only from these two cities.
Mrs. Ahmadi said her family suffered police harassment and struggled with the relatively high cost of housing Islamabad for more than three years, while she remained hope that she would move to the United States.
“One midnight in December, police forcibly entered our house and treated us roughly,” she said. “It was a scary experience.”
But the suspension of Mr. Trump broke her optimism due to the reception of refugees, and the new Directive of Islamabad to evict Afghanistan refugees from the capital deepened her trouble, she said.
“For two decades, my family built a life in Afghanistan, only to be destroyed in one day when we were forced to leave everything behind in Kabul,” Mrs. Ahmadi said. “We endured all these difficulties in Islamabad with the hope that we would soon arrive in the United States and start a new life.”
“But they seem to have left us now,” she said.
