The Taliban’s High Commission for Refugee Affairs has announced that 6,276 individuals returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan on Tuesday, August 26.
According to the commission, 3,341 of them crossed through the Islam Qala border in Herat and the Silk Bridge crossing in Nimruz province, while the rest returned via routes from Pakistan.
Data from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reveals that 2.3 million people have returned from these neighboring countries since the beginning of 2025. Of that number, 349,200 returned from Pakistan alone between March 31 and August 20.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) previously reported that over 4 million people have been sent back from Pakistan and Iran in under two years, many of them forcibly, according to both Taliban officials and international agencies.
Currently, three of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries are actively expelling migrants. Iranian Interior Minister Esmail Momeni has announced that Iran intends to deport an additional 2 million people by the end of this solar year. He also stated that approximately 6 million migrants from Afghanistan are currently residing in Iran.
