According to sources, “1698 refugees with Afghan Citizen Cards (ACC) were deported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”, increasing the total number of Afghans deported since “September 2023 to 4,84,975”.

The Interior Ministry claims that the Torkham border crossing was also used for the return of “3,268 Afghans” who were not authorized and had no documentation.

More than “3,053 Afghan refugees holding Afghan Citizen Cards have been deported since April 1, 2025. One from Gilgit-Baltistan, 1,980 from Punjab, while 160 from Islamabad were deported”.

CM KPK Are Not Happy

A total of “484,975 Afghan immigrants” have returned to Afghanistan since September 2023. Meanwhile, “1,573 illegal Afghans were deported from Islamabad, 3,905 from Punjab, 38 from Azad Kashmir, 44 from Sindh, and 11,134 from KP”.

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Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur had already declared that Afghan refugees will not be removed from their homes or thrown on the border. He disagreed with the government’s strategy to deal with those who turned to violence.

“We need to find out why they have armed themselves.” Here, the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa declared, “They are our respective people, we have to own them. We have a way to stop terrorism,” Gandapur remarked.

“We could not send them again on the border,” the chief minister of KP stated while discussing the return of Afghan refugees to their homeland. Gandapur declared, “Until the Afghan government agrees to take them in, we won’t be sending Afghan migrants back.”

He declared that no Afghan refugee would be forced to return by the KP administration. “We must proceed with negotiations with Afghanistan,” he declared.

“I make these efforts in my own capacity,” he remarked, referring to the PTI’s founder’s refusal to invite him to speak. He said that he didn’t tell the party’s founder a number of things.

Along with the (people, police, and administration), CM Gandapur also threatened to return to the streets if the province did not receive the National Finance Commission (NFC).