{"id":21068,"date":"2026-09-05T05:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/05\/afghan-families-forced-return-humanitarian-concerns-border-crossings\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T05:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:57:23","slug":"afghan-families-forced-return-humanitarian-concerns-border-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/05\/afghan-families-forced-return-humanitarian-concerns-border-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"262 Afghan Families Forced Back as Humanitarian Concerns Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The forced return of Afghan families to the country has continued, intensifying concerns over the humanitarian conditions of returnees and their access to shelter and basic services. The Taliban administration said 262 families, comprising 1,162 people, entered Afghanistan through various routes yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the Taliban administration, said in a statement on Saturday, 14 Sunbula, that 134 families comprising 662 people were returned to Afghanistan only through the Torkham border. According to him, seven families entered through the Spin Boldak route, 96 families through the Nimroz border, and another 25 families arrived through Islam Qala.<\/p>\n<p>The forced returns come as some returning families face economic hardship and a lack of basic facilities after arriving in Afghanistan. The main concern, meanwhile, is said to be the inability of many of these families to meet their basic needs and their limited access to essential services.<\/p>\n<p>Torkham in Nangarhar province, Spin Boldak in Kandahar, Islam Qala in Herat and the Nimroz crossing are among the most important entry and exit routes for migrants between Afghanistan and neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban says 262 Afghan families, including 1,162 people, returned through multiple borders as humanitarian concerns grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21068","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\/21068","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=21068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}