{"id":124844,"date":"2026-04-26T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=124844"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:19:59","slug":"afghans-in-qatar-can-return-with-full-confidence-says-taliban-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/124844\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghans in Qatar can return &#8216;with full confidence&#8217;, says Taliban govt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Web Desk(National Times)- The Taliban government said on Saturday that Afghans who fled to Qatar, fearing reprisals over their collaboration with US forces, may return home \u201cwith full confidence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The administration of US President Donald Trump, which has made a sweeping crackdown on immigration a signature policy, had given a March 31&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1994205\">deadline<\/a>&nbsp;to close a camp where more than 1,100 Afghans were staying at a former US base in Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afghans have been going through the base for processing while seeking to move to the United States, fearing persecution by Taliban authorities for having worked with US forces before they withdrew and the Western-backed government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1640974\">collapsed<\/a>&nbsp;in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAccording to media reports, a number of Afghan nationals who had been awaiting US visas in the State of Qatar have been asked to choose between the repatriation to Afghanistan or resettlement in a third country,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said in a statement posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfghanistan constitutes the shared homeland of all Afghans and it invites all those concerned\u2026 (to) return to their homeland, whose doors remain open to them, with full confidence and peace of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1995010\/afghans-in-qatar-can-return-with-full-confidence-says-taliban-govt#no-security-threats\"><\/a>\u2018No security threats\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>AfghanEvac, a group seeking to help former Afghan allies, said this week that Washington had offered Afghans stuck in Qatar a choice between emigrating to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo or returning to their Taliban-ruled homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou do not relocate vetted wartime allies, more than 400 of them children, from American custody into a country in the middle of its own collapse,\u201d Shawn VanDiver, a US veteran who heads AfghanEvac, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 190,000 Afghans have found new homes in the United States under a programme initiated by former president Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1887310\/afghans-awaiting-resettlement-betrayed-by-trump-order\">dismantled<\/a>&nbsp;the broader US refugee resettlement programme and ordered a halt to processing for Afghans after one Afghan, who had worked with US intelligence and suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, shot&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1957664\">two<\/a>&nbsp;National Guard troops in Washington last year, one fatally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A US State Department spokesperson said that moving Afghans at the Qatar camp \u201cto a third country is a positive resolution that provides safety for these remaining people to start a new life outside of Afghanistan while upholding the safety and security of the American people\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taliban government\u2019s foreign ministry spokesman said in his Saturday statement that \u201cthere exist no security threats in Afghanistan\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN chief Antonio Guterres had said in a report that between November 6 and January 25, there were \u201c29 arbitrary arrests and detentions and six instances of torture and ill-treatment of former government officials\u201d and former members of the security forces, \u201cincluding those who have returned to Afghanistan\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk(National Times)- The Taliban government said on Saturday that Afghans who fled to Qatar, fearing reprisals over their collaboration with US forces, may return home \u201cwith full confidence\u201d. The administration of US President Donald Trump, which has made a sweeping crackdown on immigration a signature policy, had given a March 31&nbsp;deadline&nbsp;to close a camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124844","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Afghans in Qatar can return &#039;with full confidence&#039;, says Taliban govt - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/124844\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Afghans in Qatar can return &#039;with full confidence&#039;, says Taliban govt - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Web Desk(National Times)- The Taliban government said on Saturday that Afghans who fled to Qatar, fearing reprisals over their collaboration with US forces, may return home \u201cwith full confidence\u201d. 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