{"id":17999,"date":"2026-07-20T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/over-4000-afghan-migrants-forcibly-returned-one-day-humanitarian-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:13:45","slug":"over-4000-afghan-migrants-forcibly-returned-one-day-humanitarian-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/over-4000-afghan-migrants-forcibly-returned-one-day-humanitarian-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 4,000 Afghan Migrants Forcibly Returned in One Day Amid Growing Humanitarian Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has announced that over 4,000 Afghan migrants were forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan to Afghanistan in a single day, a process that has raised alarms over a worsening humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Fetrat, deputy spokesperson for the Taliban administration, stated on Monday, July 20, that these migrants were sent back to Afghanistan the previous day. According to him, they were expelled by Iranian and Pakistani authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pakistan began a new phase of deportations of Afghan migrants about ten days ago. Alongside rising tensions between Iran and the United States, the forced return of Afghan migrants from Iran has also intensified.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those returned face severe challenges upon arrival, including lack of shelter, unemployment, poverty, and difficulties in meeting basic living needs\u2014issues that further strain families in Afghanistan\u2019s fragile economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Aid organizations have warned that the growing number of returnees is putting increasing pressure on limited humanitarian resources, exposing vulnerable families to a more severe crisis. Afghanistan has witnessed successive waves of migrant returns from neighboring countries in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 4,000 Afghan migrants were forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan in one day, raising urgent humanitarian concerns amid economic hardships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17999","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\/17999","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=17999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}