The Taliban have announced that 252 Afghan migrants have been released from prisons in Pakistan and returned to Afghanistan.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said in a statement on Thursday, October 29, that 15 of these individuals had returned to the country through the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar.
According to the ministry, another 237 individuals had returned to Afghanistan through the Torkham crossing in Nangarhar.
In recent years, Pakistan has intensified its arrests and deportations of Afghan migrants.
Thousands of Afghan migrants have been arrested and returned to Afghanistan for lacking residency documents or having their documents expire without renewal.
