As long as Pakistan is deporting Afghan refugees, 100 families a day on average are crossing into Afghanistan, according to officials at the refugee camps at Torkham Crossing, TOLOnews reported.
Pakistan Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said that any Afghan living legally in the country if found involved in political activities will face deportation.
The information and culture department in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province issued a statement confirming the closure of the Torkham border for patients lacking proper documentation, including visas and passports.
Refugees who have returned and taken up temporary housing in the Torkham Crossing region have urged that the present administration expedite the registration and assistance distribution processes so that they can return to their homes as soon as possible, according to TOLOnews.
Over 3,000 Afghans have been transported from Turkey to Kabul for deportation in the last 20 days, Khaama Press reported citing the head of the Ministry of Refugees' Legal Support Directorate.
As Pakistan forcefully expelled Afghan refugees, Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said that this move will increase the mistrust of the Afghans toward Pakistan, TOLO News reported.
A large number of those returning home, especially women and children, lack adequate facilities after their repatriation. Many of them don't have their houses as they had left the country decades back while tens of thousands were born in Pakistan.
The first group of Afghan immigrants are set to be repatriated to Afghanistan through the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Torkham border, Dawn reported on Thursday.
Caretaker Minister for Interior Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti directed the authorities concerned to formulate a comprehensive strategy for the repatriation of foreigners residing illegally in Pakistan.