Almost 60,000 people have crossed Afghanistan since the beginning of April.
Pakistan has increased the forced mass deportation of Afghan refugees and migrants, and almost 60,000 crossed the border since the beginning of April, the United Nations International Migration Organization (IIM) said.
Almost three million Afghan in Pakistan face deportation after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced in October a three -phase plan to send them back to their country of origin. The IOM said in a statement on Tuesday that it has helped more than one million people returning from Pakistan and Iran.
In the midst of the second phase of the plan, the IOM said it has registered a strong increase in forced returns. Between April 1 and 13, almost 60,000 people crossed Afghanistan through the border points of Torkham and Spin Boldak, he said.
“With a new wave of great steps now in progress of Pakistan, the needs in the ground increase rapidly, since on the border and are or a return that struggle to absorb large amounts of agenences,” Mihyung said.
In March, Islamabad established a deadline for early April for about 800,000 people who transport Afghan citizen cards (ACC) issued by the Pakistani authorities to leave the country.
Families with their belongings have crowded Torkham’s key border crossings in the north and turn to Bodak in the south, remembering scenes in 2023 when tens of thousands of Afghan fled from deportation threats in Pakistan.
Many of the Afghan have been living in Pakistan for decades after fleeing successive conflicts in their country and after the return of the Taliban to power in 2021.
The deportation order occurred in the midst of a dramatic increase in armed attacks throughout Pakistan, with the Government’s guilt groups and the nationals based in Afghanistan, an accusation that the Taliban government in Kabul has rejected.
Among those who face deportation is Afghan journalist Freshta Sadid, who has a valid output permit, according to the Joint Action Committee for refugees.
The group is asking for “urgent action” to protect Sadid, warning that it is on the list of “successes”.
Pakistan is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention of 1951 that protects refugee rights.
The country also lacks national laws to protect refugees, as well as procedures to determine status or people who are international protection within their borders.
