BERLIN: Berlin said Monday that more than 200 Afghans waiting to be offered sanctuary in Germany had been deported by Pakistan to their Taliban-run home country in recent days.
The German government was urging Islamabad to allow them back, said foreign ministry spokesman Josef Hinterseher, as an aid group voiced alarm for their fate and those of others.
The deportees are part of a group previously offered refuge in Germany but now caught between Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s tougher immigration policy and a wave of expulsions from Pakistan.
Pakistani police had recently arrested “around 450” Afghans who were previously accepted under the German scheme for people at risk from the Taliban, Hinterseher told reporters.
Of those, “211 people, according to our current information, have been deported to Afghanistan,” he said.
