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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicAfghan refugees

Topic: Afghan refugees

Indian govt gave stranded Afghan cadets a lifeline last year. Now they fear being ‘handed to Taliban’

48 Afghan cadets in India claim their visas were either cancelled or requests for visa extensions rejected. Ministry of External Affairs sources say 'nobody will be forced to go back'.

Dropping semesters to selling tea, Afghan students in India are struggling to survive

With Taliban in power back home, visa rules that prohibit working, and scholarships drying up, Afghan students in a limbo. Indian friends are helping, but they can only do so much.

Iran ‘forcefully’ deports more than 3,000 Afghan refugees

The Ministry of Refugees announced that 3,123 Afghan migrants had been deported from Iran on 24 & 25 January, through Islam Qala and Pule Abrishum borders.

In Delhi, the only school for Afghan refugees struggles to find space

Since January, Syed Jamaluddin Afghan School has been approaching various schools in Delhi asking them if they could use 15 classrooms to hold in-person classes. So far, the search has yielded no results. 

What is life like as refugee? Oscar-nominated Flee shows Afghanistan at its best—and worst

From Kabul's 'liberated' heights to 1980s Soviet regime, Taliban invasion and refugee life—Flee shows the horrors of escaping a warzone.

Hazaras are voting with their feet and fleeing Afghanistan. Quetta is their new refuge

Between five and ten thousand people have fled Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to Balochistan's Hazara town, leaving behind a history of oppression and terror.

Protests by Afghans outside UNHCR office could become super-spreader event, Delhi HC says

Delhi HC Wednesday said the protesters were not wearing masks or practicing social distancing and asked the police and AAP government to resolve the situation.

India to inoculate all Afghanistan returnees with polio vaccines, Mansukh Mandaviya says

An IAF aircraft Sunday evacuated 169 people, including 107 Indians, from Kabul amid a deteriorating security situation in the Afghan capital following a takeover by the Taliban.

Slum township outside Karachi sees influx of people fleeing from Taliban rule in Afghanistan

About two lakh Afghans live in the slum township, while the entire city of Karachi is home to about five lakh Afghan refugees.

India trained Afghan forces who joined Taliban govt. They can now be our ambassadors

India should not be timid to depend only on backchannel communications with a 'government' that may soon secure recognition from a sizeable number of countries.

On Camera

The K in K-Pop is already silent. And that’s OK

Audience data shows there are now more fans outside South Korea than at home. Like hip hop, there’s no reason why K-Pop can’t have a similarly inclusive trajectory while staying true to its core.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.