08/18/2025August 18, 2025
Pakistan deports over 200 Afghans who hold German resettlement rights
Germany’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that 211 Afghans who were approved for resettlement in Germany were deported back to from Pakistan, where they had been temporarily living.
Around 450 Afghans with German admission permits have been in preparation for deportation, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesperson
According to the spokesperson, the German Foreign Ministry is in contact with the Pakistani authorities to enable these 211 people to return to Pakistan.
Accommodation has been arranged for the deportees in Afghanistan with the help of a service provider.
More 2,000 Afghans who received a after the Taliban takeover in August 2021 are still waiting to leave neighboring Pakistan for Germany.
These include human rights defenders, lawyers, teachers, or journalists, who fear persecution under the radical Islamic Taliban in Afghanistan.
After the withdrawal of German troops, Germany had promised refuge from the Taliban to local staff who had supported Germany, as well as other Afghans facing persecution who fled to Pakistan.
Among them, according to the German Interior Ministry, are about 350 former local staff of German institutions and their families.
For over a year, large numbers of Afghan refugees. Germany’s government has also paused resettlement plans, as it promised to get after taking office earlier this year.
Last week, when asked whether people who had already been deported to Afghanistan were now being brought back, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said there was contact with these individuals through the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and that they were receiving support.
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