{"id":117822,"date":"2025-12-18T21:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=117822"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:20:48","slug":"germany-to-take-in-more-than-500-stranded-afghans-from-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/117822\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to take in more than 500 stranded Afghans from Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GERMANY(National times)- The German government said on Thursday that it would take in 535 Afghans who had been promised refuge in Germany but have been stuck in limbo in Pakistan.Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the RND media network that Berlin wanted to complete the processing of the cases \u201cin December, as far as possible\u201d to allow them to enter Germany. The Afghans were accepted under a refugee scheme set up by the previous German government, but have been stuck in Pakistan since conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz took office in May and froze the programme. Those on the scheme either worked with German armed forces in Afghanistan during the war against the Taliban, or were judged to be at particular risk from the Taliban after its return to power in 2021 \u2014 for example, rights activists and journalists, as well as their families. Pakistan had set a deadline for the end of the year for the Afghans\u2019 cases to be settled, after which they would be deported back to their homeland. Dobrindt said that \u201cwe are in touch with the Pakistani authorities about this,\u201d adding: \u201cIt could be that there are a few cases which we will have to work on in the new year.\u201d Last week, the interior ministry said it had informed 650 people on the programme they would not be admitted, as the new government deemed it was no longer in Germany\u2019s \u201cinterest\u201d. The government has offered those still in Pakistan money to give up their claim of settling in Germany, but as of mid-November, only 62 people had taken up the offer. Earlier this month, more than 250 organisations in Germany, including Amnesty International, Save the Children and Human Rights Watch, said there were around 1,800 Afghans from the programme in limbo in Pakistan, and urged the government to let them in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GERMANY(National times)- The German government said on Thursday that it would take in 535 Afghans who had been promised refuge in Germany but have been stuck in limbo in Pakistan.Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the RND media network that Berlin wanted to complete the processing of the cases \u201cin December, as far as possible\u201d to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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