{"id":13674,"date":"2026-05-25T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/25\/pakistan-releases-373-afghan-migrants-return-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:15:38","slug":"pakistan-releases-373-afghan-migrants-return-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/25\/pakistan-releases-373-afghan-migrants-return-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Releases 373 Afghan Migrants from Prisons, Returns Them to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations has announced that in the past three days, 373 Afghan migrants have been released from Pakistani prisons and have returned to Afghanistan. According to the ministry, these individuals were admitted into Afghanistan through the Torkham and Spin Boldak border crossings after their release.<\/p>\n<p>A statement released on Monday said that 296 of the released migrants entered the country via Torkham in Nangarhar province, while 77 others crossed through Spin Boldak in Kandahar province. These two crossings are among the most significant transit points between Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that these migrants had been detained and imprisoned in various cities across Pakistan due to a lack of legal residency documents. In recent months, the detention and deportation of Afghan migrants from Pakistan have increased, causing widespread concern among their families.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Refugees added that after receiving humanitarian aid, the released individuals were transferred to their home areas. However, this continuous flow of returning migrants is taking place amid widespread economic challenges and limited job opportunities within Afghanistan\u2014a situation that calls for clear planning and accountability from the Taliban administration regarding support and reintegration of the returnees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has released 373 Afghan migrants from prisons in the last three days, returning them through key border crossings into Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}