On April 20, Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation of Taliban regime reports that Pakistani Police have deported 837 Afghan refugees from the country in the last two days, reports Hasht-e Subh. In a statement on its X (formerly Twitter) page on Saturday, April 20, the Ministry disclosed that these refugees entered through the Torkham and Spin Boldak border crossings in Nangarhar and Kandahar provinces. The statement indicated that these refugees returned to Afghanistan on April 18 and 19. The Pakistani government initiated the second phase of forcibly deporting Afghan refugees from the country on April 15, 2023. Approximately 550,000 Afghan refugees returned to the country in the first phase of deportation from Pakistan.