BERLIN: German foreign ministry spokesman Josef Hinterseher has said more than 200 Afg\u00adhans waiting to be offered sanctuary in Germany had been deported by Pakis\u00adt\u00ad\u00adan to their Taliban-run home country in re\u00adcent days and the German government was urging Isla\u00adm\u00ad\u00adabad to allow them back.<\/p>\n
The deportees are part of a group previously offered refuge in Germany but now caught between Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s tougher immigration policy and a wave of expulsions from Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Hinterseher told reporters that Pakistani police re\u00ad\u00adcently arrested \u201caround 450\u201d Afghans who were pre\u00adviously accepted under the German scheme for peo\u00adple at risk from the Taliban. Of those, \u201c211 peo\u00adple, according to our current information, have been deported to Afgha\u00adnistan,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Another \u201c245 people were allowed to leave camps\u201d in Pakistan where they had been gathered prior to their scheduled deportation, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are continuing to talk to Pakistan to facilitate the return of those who have already been deported.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last week, two German rights groups launched legal proceedings against two German ministers, accusing them of \u201cabandonment and failure to render assistance\u201d to those hoping for German visas under the scheme.<\/p>\n
Germany set up the programme under former chancellor Olaf Scholz in the wake of the Taliban\u2019s 2021 takeover, to help Afghans who had worked with German institutions and their families.<\/p>\n
It also included people deemed particularly threatened by the Taliban, including journalists and human rights activists.<\/p>\n
However, the program\u00ad\u00adme has been put on hold as part of a stricter immigration policy brought in un\u00ad\u00adder Merz, who took office in May, leaving some 2,000 Afghans stranded in Pakistan waiting for German visas.<\/p>\n
A German interior ministry spokesman said that an individual review, potentially followed by security screening, was underway for each person in the admission programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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