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About 25% of Afghans expelled from Pakistan are children under 5 years old

The World Health Organization announced that about 25% of Afghans returned from Pakistan are children under 5 years old.
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According to the regional office Tasnim News Agency, the World Health Organization announced in its second report on the situation of migrants and refugees who entered Afghanistan from Pakistan: about 25 percent of Afghans returned from this The country is made up of children under 5 years of age.

According to this report, after Pakistan announced the deadline for Afghan refugees without documents and identity documents until the 11th November (November 20), a total of 327,400 people entered Afghanistan from Torkham and Spinboldek border crossings.

Health Organization Jahani adds: Most of the people who returned from Pakistan or were deported are women and children, about 25% of them are children under five years of age and 60% of them are children and adolescents under 17 years of age, also 48% of this total The people are women.

In this report, it is stated that most of the immigrants and refugees who entered Afghanistan from Pakistan are from Nangarhar province.

After Nangarhar, the inhabitants of Kandahar, Kunar, Kunduz and Laghman provinces, respectively, constitute about 90% of the total number of these immigrants and asylum seekers who want to have expressed to return to their main areas.

The World Health Organization in this report admits that this organization and its partners have reached 51 thousand and 494 of the repatriates have provided healthcare services.

This organization said that this number includes 11,205 boys, 12,000 and 749 girls, 11 thousand 348 men and 16 thousand 192 women. have become Afghanistan, they will be settled in temporary shelters before returning to their main areas in the border areas of Torkham and Spinboldek to register their profiles.

This institution added that as the winter season approaches, these people are more vulnerable. The undocumented asylum seeker was given until November 1 to leave Pakistan or face deportation.

After this Deadline, Pakistani police have started arresting and deporting “illegal” immigrants and asylum seekers, and according to the UN report, thousands of people enter Afghanistan every day.

Human rights organizations and aid workers have expressed concern about these people’s access to health and treatment services, food and shelter.

In addition, a number of Political groups and currents of the country have expressed concern about the displacement of these immigrants and asylum seekers in “certain areas” of the country.

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