{"id":24374,"date":"2026-10-20T16:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/20\/more-than-500-families-forced-back-to-afghanistan-via-border-crossings\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:43:13","slug":"more-than-500-families-forced-back-to-afghanistan-via-border-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/20\/more-than-500-families-forced-back-to-afghanistan-via-border-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 500 Families Forced Back to Afghanistan via Multiple Border Crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Taliban administration, at least 122 families, comprising 542 people, have been forcibly returned to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Fetrat, deputy spokesman for the Taliban administration, said in a statement on Tuesday, 20 October, that the returns took place through four border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>He said 21 families, totaling 101 people, entered the country via the Torkham crossing in Nangarhar province, while 12 families, comprising 74 people, crossed through the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 69 families, or 291 people, were returned to Afghanistan via the Pul-e Abrisham crossing in Nimroz province, and another 20 families, totaling 76 people, entered the country through the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat province.<\/p>\n<p>These forced returns could have significant humanitarian and social consequences for the families concerned, especially at a time when people in Afghanistan are facing widespread economic and security problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 122 families were forcibly returned to Afghanistan through four border crossings, according to the Taliban administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24374","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=24374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}