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So far in 2025, about one million of the three million Afghans living in Pakistan have been deported or forced to return to Afghanistan.
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Elian Peltier, Zia ur-Rehman
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KARACHI, Pakistan – As Pakistan and Afghanistan have escalated military clashes and closed their borders, the Pakistani authorities have intensified mass expulsions of Afghans, saying they can no longer accommodate the decades-old refugee community.
So far in 2025, about one million of the three million Afghans living in Pakistan have been deported or forced to return to Afghanistan, a country where many have never lived and where jobs and affordable housing are scarce amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
