{"id":20694,"date":"2026-04-30T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=20694"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:29:44","slug":"over-500-afghan-citizens-released-from-pakistani-prisons-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/30\/over-500-afghan-citizens-released-from-pakistani-prisons-return-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 500 Afghan citizens released from Pakistani prisons, return home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: A total of 527 Afghan citizens have been released from Pakistani prisons and returned to Afghanistan over the past week, according to Afghan authorities.<br>The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said in a statement on Thursday that the individuals crossed back into the country through the Torkham Border Crossing in Nangarhar province and the Spin Boldak Border Crossing in Kandahar province.<br>According to the statement, those released had been detained by Pakistani police for lacking valid legal residency documents and had spent varying periods in detention.<br>Officials from the migration departments in Nangarhar and Kandahar said 487 people returned through Torkham, while 40 others crossed via Spin Boldak.<br>Upon arrival in Afghanistan, the returnees were registered and received humanitarian assistance before being transferred to their home areas.<br>The report also noted that arrests and detentions of Afghan citizens by Pakistani authorities continue in some areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: A total of 527 Afghan citizens have been released from Pakistani prisons and returned to Afghanistan over the past week, according to Afghan authorities.The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said in a statement on Thursday that the individuals crossed back into the country through the Torkham Border Crossing in Nangarhar province and the Spin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20696,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20694\/revisions\/20696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}