{"id":20570,"date":"2026-08-29T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/taliban-says-267-afghan-families-returned-in-one-day\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:30:22","slug":"taliban-says-267-afghan-families-returned-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/taliban-says-267-afghan-families-returned-in-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban says 267 Afghan families returned in a single day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has said that 267 Afghan families, comprising 1,289 people, entered Afghanistan on Thursday through various border crossings, in a process that comes amid continued deportations and forced returns of migrants from Pakistan and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the Taliban administration, said in a news release late on Friday, 6 Sunbula, that 168 families, including 879 people, returned to Afghanistan via the Torkham crossing.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, nine families entered the country through the Spin Boldak route, 69 families through the Nimroz border, and 21 families via Islam Qala.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the return of Afghan migrants in recent months has continued alongside the ongoing deportation and forced repatriation process from Pakistan and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Habitat) recently reported that more than 6 million Afghan migrants have been returned to the country over the past three years, people who need adequate shelter. Torkham, Spin Boldak and Islam Qala are among the main crossings used by migrants entering Afghanistan from Pakistan and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban says 267 Afghan families returned in one day through key border crossings from Pakistan and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20570","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\/20570","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=20570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}