Mass expulsion of at-risk Afghans

Pakistan has deported at least 180,000 Afghans back to their Taliban-run country, cracking down on 1.7 million undocumented migrants, claiming they are responsible for militant attacks 

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Home to around 796,000 Afghan refugees, living in 43 refugee camps - most arrived after 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 

Oct 3: Pakistan's interior Minister, Sarfaraz Bugti, orders Afghans without refugee status to leave within 28 days

Jan-Oct: 300-plus militant attacks including 24 suicide bombs, mainly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan provinces

Aug 2021: Taliban return to power in Afghanistan. 600,000 Afghans flee to Pakistan

Torkham: 147,950 Afghans cross border

Kabul

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA

Peshawar

Islamabad

Lahore

Chaman: 35,000 Afghan cross border

Quetta

AFGHANISTAN 

IRAN 

BALOCHISTAN 

INDIA

Hyderabad

Karachi

Gwadar

ARABIAN SEA 

100 miles 160km


Sources: Rights Watch, Reuters, UNHCR  Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS