According to Iraf News Agency, the Ministry of Migrants Affairs of the Taliban government announced in a report that Tajikistan has expelled 100 Afghan families to Afghanistan.
Tajikistan is the third neighboring country of Afghanistan, after Iran and Pakistan, where the process of expelling Afghan migrants is taking place.
Mosavar Bahadori, the head of the Afghan Refugee Committee in Dushanbe, in an interview with Tajikistan Asia-Plus this July, had denied reports of forced expulsions of Afghan refugees from the country.
He said: “No one has come to the committee to report or complain about forced expulsions so far.”
The Taliban government officials had previously announced that, since their return to power in August 2021, around 7 million Afghan migrants have returned or been deported to their country.
Previously, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had reported in its annual report that, in 2025, at least 2.8 million Afghans had returned to their country from Iran and Pakistan.
According to the report, from this number, 1.8 million people returned from Iran, around 930,000 from Pakistan, and 1,700 from Tajikistan were also deported to Afghanistan.
The Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), have also recently reported the expulsion of over 5 million Afghan migrants from Iran and Pakistan in the past year.
