Taliban: Nearly 6,000 Afghan refugees are imprisoned in Pakistan

According to the regional office of Tasnim News Agency, “Abdul Rahman Rashid” of the Ministry of Refugees of the Taliban government announced that about 6,000 Afghan refugees are imprisoned in Pakistani prisons, adding that talks are ongoing with the authorities of the interim government of Pakistan for the release of refugees.

Rashed He said: There are about 6,000 refugees imprisoned in Pakistan. So far, about 600 people have been released from prisons in Karachi and other cities. Here, the immigration attachés of our embassy and our consul general are in contact with the Pakistani authorities and are trying to free the prisoners somehow.

On the other hand, the representatives of Afghan refugees in Pakistan are also Criticizing the behavior of the police in this country, they say that there are people with legal residency documents among the prisoners. We want to facilitate the legal living conditions for the refugees in this country, and we ask the international community, especially the United Nations and the host countries, not to be spectators and to deal with the challenge of the refugees.

Mohammed, one of the Afghan refugees in Pakistan, also said about the problems of the refugees: “Our house is for Afghans They check, whoever has a visa, well, whoever doesn’t cross the border or they take money. Just a few days ago, my brother was taken, he was brought back with the help of institutions. I want the government of Pakistan to pay attention to us immigrants”. /p>

Asefe Stanekzai, a refugee rights activist, told “Taloo News” about this: Detaining refugees in Pakistan causes fear and insecurity, and on the other hand, it will have a negative impact on the relations between the two countries.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Migration of the Taliban government, more than 600 Afghan citizens have been released from Pakistani prisons and returned to Afghanistan since the beginning of this year.

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