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Pakistan’s plan to evict thousands of Afghans ‘unacceptable’, says Taliban

Around one million Afghans are registered refugees in Pakistan and 880,000 more have legal status to remain, according to the United Nations [File: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP]

Pakistan’s plan to evict hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees and migrants is “unacceptable”, says the Taliban, denying Islamabad’s allegations that Afghanistan’s citizens were responsible for Pakistan’s security problems.

“The behaviour of Pakistan towards Afghan refugees is unacceptable,” Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban administration in Kabul, said in a post on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday.

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