{"id":24638,"date":"2026-10-24T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/pakistan-detains-more-than-500-afghans-in-a-week\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:43:28","slug":"pakistan-detains-more-than-500-afghans-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/pakistan-detains-more-than-500-afghans-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan detains more than 500 Afghans in a week, UN agencies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani authorities detained 517 Afghan nationals in the provinces of Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between October 11 and 17, 2023, according to reports by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).<\/p>\n<p>Most of those detained, about 83 percent, had no legal documents, while 9 percent held an Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) and 8 percent had a Proof of Registration (PoR) card.<\/p>\n<p>During the same period, 3,883 people returned to Afghanistan through the Torkham, Chaman and Bahramcha crossings, of whom 499 were forcibly expelled from Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The two international agencies also noted that from September 15, 2023 to October 17, 2023, nearly 2.744 million Afghan citizens returned to their country from Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN agencies say Pakistan detained 517 Afghans in a week, while nearly 2.744 million returned from Pakistan since mid-September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24638","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\/24638","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=24638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}