Over 10,000 Afghan refugees had been forcibly deported from Iran and Pakistan over the past two days, an Afghan official mentioned on Saturday.
Sharing a report from the Excessive Fee for Addressing Migrants’ Points on X, the Afghan authorities’s deputy spokesperson, Hamdullah Fitrat, mentioned that 1,939 households comprising 10,043 people returned to Afghanistan on Thursday and Friday.
In accordance with the report, the refugees entered Afghanistan by main border crossings, together with Islam Qala in Herat, Pul-i-Abresham in Nimroz, Spin Boldak in Kandahar, Bahramcha in Helmand, and Torkham in Nangarhar.
Fitrat mentioned that 1,464 refugee households, comprising 8,140 people, had been relocated to their respective areas, whereas 1,279 households had been offered humanitarian help, Pajhwok Afghan Information reported. He added that telecommunication firms distributed a complete of 1,626 SIM playing cards to the returnees.
He additionally acknowledged that on Wednesday, Pakistani and Iranian authorities forcibly repatriated 2,300 Afghan refugees.
Earlier in November, the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) revealed that Pakistan detained a report variety of Afghan migrants in 2025, with the very best variety of arrests reported within the Balochistan and Punjab provinces.
A brand new UNHCR report mentioned that the majority arrests had been carried out within the Chagai and Quetta districts of Balochistan and the Attock district of Punjab, Afghanistan’s main information company Khaama Press reported.
In accordance with the company, Pakistani authorities arrested 100,971 Afghans between January 1 and mid-November 2025, marking a pointy rise in contrast with about 9,000 arrests in 2024 and greater than 26,000 in 2023.
UNHCR mentioned 76 per cent of these detained had been Afghan Citizen Card holders or undocumented migrants, whereas the remaining 24 per cent possessed Proof of Registration playing cards.
The rise within the detention of Afghan migrants adopted two authorities orders in 2025 directing the elimination of Afghan migrants from Islamabad and Rawalpindi and permitting police to arrest PoR card holders.
A number of humanitarian organisations have urged Pakistan to make sure that any returns are voluntary and in step with worldwide obligations. They warned that mass expulsions may trigger instability alongside the Afghanistan border, the place many returning households lack housing, employment, and primary providers.