(NaturalNews) More than half a million Afghans have left Pakistan in the last four months – between Sept. 15, 2023, and Jan. 13 – or since Islamabad issued… Source Views: 0
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Pakistan deports half a million Afghans in 4 months; the U.S. should EJECT ILLEGALS too
Afghans return to Taliban rule as Pakistan moves to expel 1.7 million
As the clock ticked down to the Nov. 1 deadline Pakistan set for undocumented migrants to leave the country, Muhammad Rahim boarded a bus from Karachi to the Afghan border. Source Views: 0
Afghans in dire need of aid to survive freezing winter
READ: Turkiye's 7th aid train reaches Afghanistan Source Views: 0
Afghans will struggle for their lives this winter, says Red Cross
“The economic hardship is there. It’s very serious, and people will struggle for their lives,” Martin Schüepp, director of operations at the ICRC. Source Views: 0
Greek hero who saved 80 Afghans from the sea awarded by Greek Government last night
Michalis Protopsaltis does not see himself as a hero. When the news of the shipwreck came through, he did, he says, what any man in his position would do. The construction company owner dispatched a crane to the Kythira clifftop Source Views: 0
Canada agrees to resettle Afghans held in UAE facility, sources say
Canada will accept some 1,000 Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover of their homeland and have been held for months in a makeshift refugee centre in the United Arab Emirates awaiting resettlement to the United States and elsewhere, seven sources said, Reuters reports. Ottawa has agreed to a US request to resettle some of the […]
Homeland Security May Have Allowed Dangerous, Unvetted Afghans Into United States: Inspector General
During the evacuation of Afghanistan from July 2021 to January 2022, the United States brought nearly 80,000 Afghan citizens into the United States, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to fully vet some of the evacuees, potentially allowing individuals who pose a national security risk into the country, according to a recent report. […]
Deadly Earthquake Devastates Afghans Already Reeling From Poverty
“We are basically letting 25 million Afghan people to starve, to die, not to be able to earn their own living if we keep on with this financial blockade.” Source Views: 0
Afghans and Iranians are brothers
TEHRAN — In the past days, there have been seditions intended to sow discord between the people of Iran and Afghanistan. Falsely edited videos circulated in social media depicts Iranian border guards mistreating Afghan refugees. The videos caused anger in Kabul, Herat and other cities. But what is the truth? Views: 0
Afghanistan: Americans Loot Poverty-Stricken Afghans
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 changed our world permanently. Although those who staged those events have not yet been identified, Washington unequivocally declared a “war on terror”, directed at the overthrow of Al Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) and the Taliban regime (banned in Russia), supported by American satellites. But it is […]
Afghans face hunger as country’s economy in dire straits
With Afghanistan’s economy in freefall, tens of millions of people are facing hunger, according to a UN estimate. “Hunger is widespread and growing. The economy and health sectors are collapsing. There are cash shortages, and nearly an entire population might plunge below the poverty line next year, according to a few U.N. estimates,” Irwin Loy, […]
Afghans seek end to sanctions, unconditional unfreezing of reserves
The interim government led by the Taliban in Afghanistan is seeking to have sanctions lifted and an unconditional unfreezing of its assets by the US, a spokesman said Tuesday, and Anadolu News Agency reports. A request was proffered by Acting Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, during a two-day meeting in the Qatari capital of […]
Biden to Give Free Work Permits to Most of 70K Afghans Brought to U.S. Thus Far
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced plans to provide work permits to tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the United States, free of charge. On Monday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the agency will exempt Afghans brought to the U.S. via “humanitarian parole” from filing fees to “help facilitate […]
Report: 20K More Afghans Seeking Resettlement Across U.S.
The number of Afghans requesting to be resettled in the United States stands at about 20,000 as President Joe Biden’s administration continues flying in thousands each week. Biden’s massive Afghan resettlement operation plans to bring at least 95,000 Afghans to the U.S. for resettlement across 46 states. The Afghans are initially flown into Philadelphia International […]
Afghans among hundreds of migrants stranded on Serbia-Hungary border seeking to enter EU
Hundred of migrants and refugees from Africa and Asia live in an abandoned farm in Kárásztanya on the Serbian side of the border with Hungary. The men, women and children include many from Afghanistan who say they were forced to flee the Taliban. Each day they try to scale the nearby border fence with ladders […]
CNN: ‘Few, if Any’ Afghans Awaiting Arrival to U.S. Have Vaccine Records
Only a “few, if any,” Afghans awaiting entry to the United States, as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation, have their vaccination records, CNN reported. About 10,000 Afghans remain temporarily living at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany — all with the hopes of getting approved for permanent resettlement across the […]
More GOP Governors Back Biden’s Plan to Resettle 95K Afghans in Their States
More Republican governors across the United States are publicly supporting President Joe Biden’s massive refugee resettlement operation out of Afghanistan which is set to bring at least 95,000 Afghans to the U.S. over the next year. Last week, the Biden administration announced that the first group of roughly 36,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. at […]
Afghan American Interpreter: ‘Vast Majority of Afghans’ View Taliban as ‘Lesser of Two Evils’ Compared to US
(Business Insider) — An Afghan American who served as an interpreter for the US during the war in Afghanistan said in a Washington Post op-ed that America’s lack of knowledge about the culture of the country contributed heavily to its failures there. “Many Americans have been asking: Why is this crazy scramble necessary? How could […]