{"id":19528,"date":"2026-08-11T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/11\/taliban-says-eight-million-migrants-returned-to-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:09:08","slug":"taliban-says-eight-million-migrants-returned-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/11\/taliban-says-eight-million-migrants-returned-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Says About Eight Million Migrants Have Returned to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has said that about eight million migrants have returned to Afghanistan since it came back to power, as many Afghans face the threat of forced deportation from neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, acting minister for refugees and repatriation in the Taliban administration, gave the figure on Tuesday, 20 August, during a humanitarian aid distribution programme for returning families in Paktia province.<\/p>\n<p>The large-scale return comes as some Afghan citizens left the country after the Taliban took control, driven by rising poverty, unemployment and pressure linked to political and civil activities, and sought refuge in neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Now, some of these migrants are also being forced to return, not because conditions have improved, but because they face threats of forced expulsion. Paktia is one of Afghanistan&#8217;s southeastern provinces, where a number of returning families have been relocated in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban says about eight million migrants have returned to Afghanistan as Afghans face forced deportation from neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19528","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=19528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}