{"id":23740,"date":"2026-10-11T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/taliban-says-104-families-forcibly-returned-to-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:50:15","slug":"taliban-says-104-families-forcibly-returned-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/taliban-says-104-families-forcibly-returned-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Says 104 Families Forcibly Returned to Afghanistan in One Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has announced that 104 families, including 448 people, were forcibly returned to Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, a development that places a new burden on vulnerable families and limited facilities at border crossings and in border provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the Taliban administration, said in a statement on Sunday, 11 October, that 28 families comprising 138 people entered the country through the Torkham crossing in eastern Nangarhar province.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, 11 families comprising 51 people returned to Afghanistan through the Spin Boldak crossing in southern Kandahar province.<\/p>\n<p>Fitrat said 56 families comprising 225 people entered the country via the Pul-e Aibak route in Nimroz province, and nine families comprising 34 people entered through the Islam Qala crossing in western Herat province.<\/p>\n<p>Torkham, Spin Boldak, Pul-e Aibak and Islam Qala are among the main transit and trade crossings along Afghanistan&#8217;s borders, and in recent months there have been repeated reports of waves of returnees, particularly forced returns, through these routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban says 104 families, including 448 people, were forcibly returned to Afghanistan in one day through key border crossings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23740","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\/23740","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=23740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}