{"id":15158,"date":"2026-06-14T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/14\/495000-afghan-migrants-return-iran-pakistan-turkey-two-months\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T10:15:48","slug":"495000-afghan-migrants-return-iran-pakistan-turkey-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/14\/495000-afghan-migrants-return-iran-pakistan-turkey-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 495,000 Afghan Migrants Return from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey in Two Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Migrants and Returnees has announced that in the past two months, 495,398 Afghan migrants have returned to the country from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. These individuals either returned voluntarily or were deported by the host countries.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Matlib Haqqani, spokesperson for the ministry, stated that over 298,000 returned from Pakistan, nearly 200,000 from Iran, and more than 30,000 from Turkey. He did not provide further details regarding the legal status or reasons behind these migrants&#8217; return.<\/p>\n<p>According to Haqqani, basic assistance is provided to returnees upon arrival. This aid includes food supplies, cash, and transportation services to their desired areas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the increasing rate of migrant returns and deportations in recent months has raised concerns about Afghanistan&#8217;s capacity to absorb and resettle them. This situation calls for transparent planning and practical accountability by the Taliban administration regarding the livelihoods and access of these families to essential services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban ministry reports 495,398 Afghan migrants returned from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey in two months amid concerns over resettlement capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158","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=15158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}