| Event: | CE Complex Emergency |
| Number: | 2025-000051 |
| Country: | PAK Pakistan |
| Location: | Azad Kashmir, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Islamabad Capital
Territory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh |
| Date (YMD): | 2025-4-20 |
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| Information Source: | Pakistan Red Crescent Society |
| Comments: | Since 1 November 2023, the Government of Pakistan has implemented the Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Program (IFRP), with intermittent pauses. In March 2025, authorities issued a notification advising Afghan Citizen Card (ACC) holders and undocumented Afghan nationals to voluntarily leave the country by 31 March 2025, thereafter deportations will commence with the effect from from 1 April 2025. In the period between November 2023 and March 2025, a total of 842,429 Afghan nationals returned to Afghanistan. Of these, 40,677 individuals were deported while 51,196 returned voluntarily through facilitated processes.
Currently, the Afghan population in Pakistan includes 1.43 million Proof of Registration (PoR) card holders, 800,700 ACC holders, and 143,900 unregistered members of registered families. The government estimates there are approximately 1.7 million undocumented Afghan nationals, although precise records are unavailable. Among the registered population, 444,439 individuals reside in refugee villages (camps), while 990,947 live outside these areas.
UNHCR-IOM latest Flash update on 11 April 2025, reported the return of 19,334 Afghans while the report shared on 17 April 2025 indicate that 55,426 Afghans returned in the week of 6-12 April 2025, through the Torkham, Ghulam Khan (located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Chaman, Badini and Bahramcha (located in Baluchistan) border crossing points to Afghanistan.
On the other hand, for the implementation of Illegal Foreigner Repatriation Plan (IFRP) the government has established a process that includes establishment of 44 holding centers across four provinces of the country. Of the total holding centers 38 have been established in Punjab, one in Sindh, two in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and three in Baluchistan. Forced returnees are processed at the provincial holding centres before being transported to designated border crossing points, while voluntary returnees can directly approach the holding centers at crossing points.
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