{"id":14365,"date":"2026-06-03T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/03\/nearly-2800-return-afghanistan-one-day-torkham-border-crossing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:00:31","slug":"nearly-2800-return-afghanistan-one-day-torkham-border-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/03\/nearly-2800-return-afghanistan-one-day-torkham-border-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 2,800 Return to Afghanistan in One Day; Torkham Leads Border Crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has announced that in the past day, 517 families totaling 2,797 individuals have entered Afghanistan through border crossings with Iran and Pakistan, coinciding with ongoing forced returns of Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Fetrat, deputy spokesperson for the Taliban administration, said in a Wednesday, May 31 statement that from the Torkham crossing in Nangarhar province alone, 465 families comprising 2,600 people returned to the country. This crossing is considered one of the most important passageways between Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the provided information, 7 families entered through the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar province, 4 families from Nimroz, and 41 families from the Islam Qala border in Herat province. Islam Qala and Nimroz are among the key border crossings between Afghanistan and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>These returns continue amid a recent rise in forced expulsions and repatriations of Afghans from neighboring countries. Many returning families face severe economic hardships and a lack of basic facilities in border areas.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the United Nations warned that approximately 2.7 million Afghan citizens could be returned to the country from April to December 2026, a figure that could significantly strain the humanitarian situation and basic services in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2,800 people returned to Afghanistan in one day via Iran and Pakistan borders amid rising forced repatriations, with Torkham crossing seeing highest returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14365","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\/14365","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=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}