{"id":27305,"date":"2025-02-19T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27305"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:49:02","slug":"over-18000-afghan-nationals-return-home-from-pakistan-in-january-iom-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/over-18000-afghan-nationals-return-home-from-pakistan-in-january-iom-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 18,000 Afghan nationals return home from Pakistan in January, IOM reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that more than 18,000 Afghan citizens returned from Pakistan in January of 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a report published on its website on Wednesday, the IOM stated that these returnees came from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, and Rawalpindi, and have now returned to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The IOM added that the return of Afghan citizens from Pakistan increased in the first two weeks of January compared to the following two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that 46% of those returning were between the ages of 18 and 59.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IOM, 78% of returnees cited fear of detention as their reason for leaving, while 34% mentioned their inability to pay rent as the driving factor behind their return.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is a key destination for Afghan migrants, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reporting that approximately 2.9 million Afghan citizens currently reside in the country.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that more than 18,000 Afghan citizens returned from Pakistan in January of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,16,31,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-report","category-migration","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":47,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27307,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27305\/revisions\/27307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}