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Sharp decline in asylum applications to Austria in 2025
Updated : 2 months ago IST
The number of asylum applications submitted in Austria fell by 36 per cent year-on-year in 2025, reaching 16,284 applications.
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Germany sees sharp rise in Afghan women asylum seekers amid Taliban repres
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Germany has seen a sharp rise in asylum applications from Afghan women due to Taliban repression and EU rulings recognising gender-based persecution. Over 9,500 women have sought refuge this year, with experts warning that international support is needed to handle the growing number of vulne
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Over 172,000 Pakistanis leave country for jobs in Q1 2025
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
Over 172,000 Pakistanis left the country in the first quarter of 2025 in search of overseas employment, with Saudi Arabia receiving the highest number of workers. The surge reflects growing economic instability and limited domestic job opportunities.
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Austria records significant drop in asylum applications
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Austria has recorded a notable decline in the number of asylum applications, with February witnessing a 37 percent drop compared to the same period last year, bringing the total to 1,397 applications.
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Ireland mulls returning asylum seekers to UK amid border influx: Report
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Minister of Justice Helen McEntee, slated to visit London on Monday, informed a parliamentary committee that an estimated 80 per cent of asylum applications in Ireland originate from individuals crossing the Northern Ireland border.
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More than 9,000 Afghans file asylum applications in EU in a month
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to the European Census Bureau, asylum interests in the EU member states at the beginning of the current year have increased by 40 per cent compared to last year.
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Pakistan: Afghan refugees urge global community to consider asylum applica
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 10 (ANI): Hundreds of Afghan refugees in Pakistan on Thursday called on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the international community to respond positively to their asylum applications.
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Afghans lodge most asylum applications in EU: report
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], December 5 (ANI): The asylum requests by Afghan people to Europe have increased dramatically and is now the biggest country that lodges the highest number of asylum requests in Europe, according to the European Asylum Support Office (EASO).
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Afghan refugees protest outside UNHCR building in Indonesia over delay in
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], November 7 (ANI): Hundreds of Afghan refugees continued to sit in protest outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) building in Indonesia over delay in processing their asylum applications.
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Asylum application filed in Netherlands for Asiya Bibi
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Nov 9 (ANI): An asylum application has been filed in the Netherlands for Asiya Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman who was acquitted in a blasphemy case by the country's Supreme Court last month.
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Baloch Republican Party stages protest in Athens outside Swiss Embassy
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], Dec 9 (ANI): Baloch Republican Party's (BRP) Greece Chapter held a protest demonstration outside the Switzerland Embassy in Athens, the country's capital, over the Swiss Government's decision of turning down the asylum application of Baloch national leader Nawab Brahumdagh B
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Baloch activists urge Swiss govt to review decision on Brahumdagh Bugti's
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], Dec 5 (ANI): The Baloch Republican Party (BRP) and the Baloch National Movement (BNM) held a protest outside the Switzerland Embassy in Berlin, here on Tuesday, to urge the Swiss Government to review its decision on Brahumdagh Bugti's, top Baloch leader and chief of BRP, ap
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