INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Concerns about the situation of Afghan refugees being deported from Pakistan and their uncertain fate are increasing daily and thousands of
these people have been returned to Afghanistan empty-handed, the World Food Program (WFP) said.WFP published a video on Wednesday of an
Afghan immigrant who, according to him, was deported after 14 years in Pakistan.This immigrant said without mentioning his name: &We didn&t
bring anything from Pakistan, we brought one or two blankets
We did not bring anything else
Now we don&t know what to do
There is nothing we can do.&In November, the interim government of Pakistan officially started the process of deporting more than 1.7
million undocumented Afghan immigrants.According to the United Nations and the International Rescue Committee, nearly half a million Afghans
have been deported from Pakistan to Afghanistan in the last two months.At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs
Maulvi Abdul Salam Hanafi, said on Wednesday during a ceremony to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan by the
Soviet Union that so far 800,000 Afghan refugees have been forcibly deported by Pakistan and Iran and that they are being processed by the
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.Sirajuddin Haqqani, Acting Minister of Interior, also said that countries should treat Afghan immigrants
according to international standards.Haqqani said: &We say that something that is the norm of the world or the common principles that they
have made, should be treated in the same light.& &Afghan immigrants are in trouble
They returned over the course of a month during the cold winter and moved here,& he said.This comes amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis in
the country.According to United Nations, more than 29 million Afghans need humanitarian aid.Despite the fact that various human rights
defenders have repeatedly asked the Pakistani authorities to stop the forced deportation of Afghan immigrants, Islamabad has paid no
attention to these requests.Meanwhile, various institutions, including the World Food Program and the IEA government, announced that they
are providing aid to the refugees returning from Pakistan.The post WFP reports thousands of Afghan refugees expelled from Pakistan
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