{"id":22588,"date":"2026-09-24T15:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/afghans-forcibly-expelled-from-pakistan-second-quarter-iom\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:15:19","slug":"afghans-forcibly-expelled-from-pakistan-second-quarter-iom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/afghans-forcibly-expelled-from-pakistan-second-quarter-iom\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 43,000 Afghans Forcibly Expelled From Pakistan in Second Quarter, IOM Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Organization for Migration says 439,000 Afghan nationals returned from Pakistan in the second quarter of this year, including more than 43,000 who were forcibly expelled.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, fear of arrest was the main reason many returnees left Pakistan. Based on its findings, 97% of those it interviewed said fear of detention was the main reason for their departure.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, some Afghan migrants in Pakistan say persistent concern about arrest and deportation has made daily life difficult for them. They say the situation has created a widespread atmosphere of uncertainty among migrant families.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes as the arrest and deportation of Afghan migrants from Pakistan continues amid rising tensions between the Taliban administration and Islamabad. The International Organization for Migration is a United Nations-affiliated body that monitors migration and displacement in different countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOM says 439,000 Afghans returned from Pakistan in Q2, with more than 43,000 forcibly expelled as arrests and deportations continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-migrant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588","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=22588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}