What’s behind Pakistan’s mass deportation of Afghans?
Islamabad cites national security concerns, returns thousands of undocumented migrants.

Islamabad cites national security concerns, returns thousands of undocumented migrants.




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![Frontier Corps personnel carry a dead body at the crash site of a passenger bus, in the mountainous Dana Sar area of Zhob district on July 3, 2026. An overloaded bus veered off a road and fell more than 20 metres into a ravine in western Pakistan on July 3, killing at least 40 people, officials said. [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image-1783100608.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

Several heads of state and other government officials will gather in Tehran for supreme leader’s state funeral.
Bus loses control and falls into rocky ravine near border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials say.

Pakistan has warned India over the Indus Water Treaty.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have been locked in an on-off cycle of cross-border strikes, leaving their ties in tatters.
Afghan defence ministry says it carried out ‘air strikes’ in Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.

At least 14 children were killed when the roof of a private tutoring centre collapsed outside Lahore, Pakistan.
One teacher and eight other children also injured after incident in Lahore.
Afghan villagers inspected destroyed homes after overnight Pakistani strikes targeting Taliban-allied fighters.
Afghan officials say Pakistani attacks killed at least 36 civilians, while Pakistan says its forces killed 29 fighters.
The US-Iran MoU acts as a state-to-state framework managing mutual pain, not a definitive end to regional conflict.