Massexodus: Extensions: A million Afghans leave Pakistan

As part of Pakistan’s large -scale deportation campaign, one million refugees have now returned to Afghanistan. This was announced by the authorities in the Pakistani capital Islamabad of the German Press Agency. The deportations had started at the end of 2023. The majority left the country under the pressure of the impending deportations, the authorities said.

The Rote Half Moon Society warns of tightening the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, ruled by the Islamist Taliban. Many of the refugees would have left their property and livelihood in Pakistan. Quite a few of the Afghans who are now leaving the country were born in Pakistan and do not know the country of their parents. You see Pakistan as your home.

In the long term, the government in Islamabad is planning to designate three million Afghans. Pakistan started in November 2023 with the mass deportation of unregistered Afghan refugees. Since the beginning of this month, the country has also shown registered people. According to the Taliban refugee Ministry in Kabul, temporary camps have been set up at the border points on the Afghan side.

Observer: Refugees as a means of pressure

According to observers, the Pakistani government wants to increase the pressure on the Taliban in Afghanistan with the mass deportation. The economically stricken nuclear Pakistan struggles with increasing violence through militant groups and accuses the rulers in Kabul to grant them with retreat on their ground. The Taliban reject the allegations.

Millions of Afghans have been looking for protection against war and conflicts in neighboring Pakistan for decades. Even after the Taliban’s takeover again in Afghanistan, tens of thousands fled to the neighboring country for fear of the Islamists’ revenge.