{"id":21432,"date":"2026-09-09T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/taliban-says-209-migrant-families-returned-to-afghanistan-from-iran-and-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:15:17","slug":"taliban-says-209-migrant-families-returned-to-afghanistan-from-iran-and-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/taliban-says-209-migrant-families-returned-to-afghanistan-from-iran-and-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Says 209 Migrant Families Returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration says 209 migrant families, comprising 1,017 people, returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan in a single day, a figure that shows the continued flow of returnees through the country\u2019s border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>Mullah Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the Taliban administration, published the report of the commission dealing with migrants\u2019 problems on his X account. According to the report, 129 families, comprising 674 people, were transferred to various provinces, and cash assistance and other services were provided to 162 families.<\/p>\n<p>According to the commission, 95 families, comprising 536 people, entered the country and were registered through the Torkham crossing. Of them, 84 families, comprising 441 people, were transferred to the provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman and Kabul, and 3 million 75,000 Afghanis were paid for their transport fares.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that 31 families, comprising 142 people, also returned to the country through the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar province. Officials said 22 families, comprising 108 people, from this group were transferred to other provinces, and more than 286,000 Afghanis were allocated for their transport costs.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration also said that in Spin Boldak, a total of 228,000 Afghanis was provided to 30 families, and food, medical and telecommunications services were also made available to them. In another part of the report, it said that 75 families, comprising 253 people, entered Afghanistan through the Pul-e-Abrisham crossing in Nimroz province, and 1,255 passengers also returned via the same route.<\/p>\n<p>According to the commission, 34,000 Afghanis in total was provided in cash assistance to four families in Nimroz. In addition, 26 families, comprising 86 people, entered the country through the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat, and a total of 166,000 Afghanis was provided to the same number of families.<\/p>\n<p>The report concludes that, in addition to the transfer of families and cash assistance, 126 SIM cards were also distributed among the returnees. Torkham in the east, Spin Boldak in the south, Pul-e-Abrisham in Nimroz and Islam Qala in the west are among the main crossing points for Afghan migrants entering the country from Pakistan and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban authorities say 209 migrant families returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan in one day, with cash and transport aid provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21432","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\/21432","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=21432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}