{"id":1210,"date":"2025-08-06T10:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:36:48","slug":"pakistan-starts-deporting-registered-afghan-refugees-says-unhcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan starts deporting registered Afghan refugees, says UNHCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan has started to deport documented Afghan refugees ahead of its deadline for them to leave, according to the United Nations, in a move that could see more than 1 million Afghans expelled from the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said that it had received reports of arrests and expulsions of legally registered Afghans across the country before Pakistan&#8217;s September 1 deadline for them to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The UNHCR said that sending the Afghans back in this way was a breach of Pakistan&#8217;s international obligations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;UNHCR is calling on the government to stop the forcible return and adopt a humane approach to ensure voluntary, gradual, and dignified return of Afghans,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The voluntary return of the documented refugees shall commence forthwith, said a Pakistan&#8217;s interior ministry order seen by Reuters. It said the formal deportation process will start after the deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But Qaisar Khan Afridi, a spokesman for the UNHCR, told Reuters on Wednesday that hundreds of legally registered Afghan refugees had already been detained and deported to Afghanistan from August 1 to August 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The interior ministry did not respond a Reuters request for a comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More than 1.3 million Afghans hold documentation known as Proof of Registration cards, while 750,000 more have another form of registration known as an Afghan Citizen Card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Many Afghans have been settled in Pakistan since the 1980s, to escape cycles of war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Such massive and hasty return could jeopardize the lives and freedom of Afghan refugees, while also risking instability not only in Afghanistan but across the region,&#8221; UNHRC said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4\">\n<div id=\"recirc-97686755-5061-3b76-86de-2201d5fd24d5\" class=\"mb-4\">\n<div class=\"mb-3.5 flex items-center gap-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan has started to deport documented Afghan refugees ahead of its deadline for them to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}