{"id":24656,"date":"2026-10-24T20:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/pakistan-arrests-517-afghans-weekly-down-47-percent\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:23:31","slug":"pakistan-arrests-517-afghans-weekly-down-47-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/pakistan-arrests-517-afghans-weekly-down-47-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan arrests 517 Afghans in a week, down 47% from previous week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration said that between October 11 and 17 this year, 517 Afghan nationals were arrested by Pakistani police in the provinces of Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The figure was down 47% from the previous week, from October 4 to 10.<\/p>\n<p>According to the two agencies, the highest number of arrests, about 56%, were made in Balochistan, 34% in Punjab and 10% in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In addition, from January this year to October 17, the total number of arrests of Afghans in Balochistan reached 47,998, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 16,607, and in Sindh 9,384.<\/p>\n<p>The report also said that during this period, 3,883 Afghans returned to their country, of whom 499 were forcibly expelled by Pakistan. From September 15, 2023 to October 17, 2026, the total number of returns from Pakistan to Afghanistan reached 2,744,068.<\/p>\n<p>The continuation of restrictions and mass arrests against Afghan migrants in Pakistan has made the humanitarian situation of asylum seekers and migrants more complicated and raised serious concerns over their rights. Despite international criticism, reports show that the arrest and forced expulsion of Afghans in Pakistan continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN agencies say 517 Afghans were arrested in Pakistan in one week, with forced expulsions and returns continuing despite criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24656","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\/24656","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=24656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}