WFP reports thousands of Afghan refugees driven out of Pakistan empty-handed

Concerns about the situation of Afghan refugees being deported from Pakistan and their uncertain fate are increasing every day, with thousands forcibly repatriated 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.

“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,” the immigrant said in the video.

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.

According to Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs of Afghanistan, so far 800,000 Afghan refugees have been forcibly deported by Pakistan and Iran and that they are being processed by the Taliban Administration.