{"id":23936,"date":"2026-10-14T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/14\/taliban-says-698-people-forcibly-returned-to-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:30:16","slug":"taliban-says-698-people-forcibly-returned-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/14\/taliban-says-698-people-forcibly-returned-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban says 698 people forcibly returned to Afghanistan from neighbouring countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration says 162 families, comprising 698 people, returned to Afghanistan forcibly from neighbouring countries yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the Taliban administration, said in a statement on Wednesday, 22 October, that 29 families, or 144 people, entered the country through the Torkham crossing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, 19 families comprising 89 people returned to Afghanistan through the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar, and 96 families comprising 408 people entered via the Silk Bridge route in Nimroz.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 18 families comprising 57 people entered Afghanistan through the Islam Qala border in Nimroz province. The Taliban administration did not provide further details on the countries from which these families were expelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban says 698 people from 162 families were forcibly returned to Afghanistan from neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23936","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\/23936","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=23936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}