Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Kabul: The figures were informed to the Standing Committee on States and Border Areas of the Senate on Friday.
According to the Express Tribune, the Afghan High Commissioner for Refugees said that about 2.9 million Afghan citizens are currently living in Pakistan, of which 1.4 million are registered and the rest are not.
The UNHCR has provided members of the Pakistani Senate with a comprehensive explanation of the humanitarian assistance provided to Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
Pakistan has begun deporting Afghan refugees from late 2023.
More than half a million Afghan refugees and migrants have been repatriated in the first phase, which began in November 2023.
The second phase of forced deportation of undocumented Afghan migrants and refugees from Pakistan began in April 2024 and was supposed to deport one million people.
Pakistani police have recently stepped up their detention and deportation of refugees from Islamabad and Rawalpindi.