A number of Afghans deported through the Spin Boldak crossing say that Pakistani prisons have turned into centers of torture for Afghan migrants.
They add that, in addition to torture, Pakistani police forcibly take valuable belongings from the deported individuals.
Local authorities report that since April 1 of this year, 49,856 Afghan migrants have been forcibly deported through the Spin Boldak crossing.
Mohammad Idris, head of the migrant registration committee at the refugee camp in Takhta Pul district, Kandahar province, said: “Since the beginning of April, 49,856 migrants and 3,650 prisoners have been returned from Pakistan. All these prisoners were poor individuals; some were even deported without clothes.”
According to statistics from the UNHCR, over 178,000 Afghan migrants have been deported from Pakistan in the past one and a half months.
