Donald Trump’s administration halts refugee flights to US; thousands strandedRefugee flights to the US have been abruptly cancelled following a presidential executive order, leaving thousands stranded and many cases ...
23 Jan, 2025, 01.43 AM IST
Iran: Lack of jobs pose major challenge to Afghan immigrant womenMillions of Afghan immigrants in Iran, especially women, face economic challenges and limited opportunities. Undocumented immigrants risk f...
16 Dec, 2023, 06.51 AM IST
Pakistan deports over 6,500 more Afghans; total repatriated to Afghanistan touches 1,70,000: OfficialA total of 1,74,358 Afghan nationals left for Afghanistan since September 17, adding that voluntary repatriation was still underway, but th...
06 Nov, 2023, 12.08 PM IST
More than 165,000 Afghans flee Pakistan after deportation orderOver 165,000 Afghans have left Pakistan in the past month, as Pakistani authorities began detaining Afghans who had been ordered to leave t...
02 Nov, 2023, 10.50 PM IST
Fear grips Afghans in Karachi as Pakistan government announces evicting illegal immigrantsFor most of the Afghan men, women and children living in the Hijra Colony and Afghan Basti nestled on the northern outskirts of Karachi, li...
07 Oct, 2023, 11.12 PM IST
Taliban rule of Afghanistan is open-ended, their chief spokesman says as they begin year 3 in powerThe Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat, their chief...
15 Aug, 2023, 10.06 PM IST
Two years after fall of Kabul, tens of thousands of Afghans languish in limbo waiting for US visasWhile there has been some recent progress, processing U.S. visas for Afghans has moved painfully slowly. So far, only a small portion of Af...
11 Aug, 2023, 11.00 AM IST
Two men jailed for smuggling seven Indian migrants in car boots into UKTwo British Indian men, Palvinder Singh Phull and Harjit Singh Dhaliwal, have been imprisoned for assisting unlawful immigration and smuggl...
15 Jul, 2023, 05.02 PM IST
Taliban ban Afghan women from flying without male relativeThe latest restriction on women follows Wednesday's shutdown of all girls' secondary schools just hours after they were allowed to reopen f...
28 Mar, 2022, 10.25 AM IST
Thousands of Afghans seek temporary US entry, few approvedMore than 28,000 Afghans have applied for temporary admission into the U. S. for humanitarian reasons since shortly before the Taliban reca...
19 Nov, 2021, 11.02 AM IST
Afghans with ties to U.S. who could not get out now live in fearThere are also potentially hundreds of thousands of other Afghans — aid agency workers, officials from the defunct government, media employ...
04 Sep, 2021, 11.55 AM IST
There's a way to get refugees out of Afghanistan after this week's deadline — if the Taliban agreesWord-of-mouth and proof-of-concept build momentum. In Vietnam, the orderly departure program was secured by the UN refugee agency years aft...
30 Aug, 2021, 12.35 PM IST
President Biden warns lives could be lost in massive Kabul airlift operationsBiden's remarks on Friday come as the US rushed to airlift as many people as possible out of the Afghan capital ahead of a self-imposed dea...
21 Aug, 2021, 11.44 AM IST
US military temporarily suspends air operations at Kabul airportChaotic scenes continued to unfold at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport where US military Apache helicopter was also seen swooping...
16 Aug, 2021, 08.23 PM IST
Afghans who helped the United States now fear being left behindNow, as American and NATO forces prepare to leave the country, he and thousands of others who aided the war effort fear they will be left s...
17 May, 2021, 03.10 PM IST
38 Indians detained in UK for visa breach in factory raidsThe UK Home Office Immigration Enforcement team raided MK Clothing Ltd and Fashion Times UK Ltd in the city in the East Midlands region of ...
23 Apr, 2017, 10.12 PM IST
- Indians among illegal immigrants arrested in Sri Lanka
Two Indian nationals were among a group of 53 people bound for Australia arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy, police said today.
13 Jun, 2012, 12.22 PM IST