Overview
- The Interior Ministry says 62 people, about ten percent of those contacted, have agreed to a cash-and-support offer to withdraw from German admission procedures, with further responses still pending.
- The offer targeted roughly 650 individuals from the human-rights list and the bridging programme out of about 1,800 to 1,900 Afghans still waiting in Pakistan.
- Pakistan plans to resume deportations to Afghanistan after year’s end, increasing pressure on Berlin and on those with prior assurances of entry to Germany.
- On Thursday, 52 people traveled from Islamabad to Germany in the sixth such transfer since the government change, with recent arrivals generally following court-ordered visas.
- Officials are considering a return to charter flights, according to dpa, as administrative courts frequently rule for applicants — including 49 of 67 urgent cases decided in Berlin by late October — while NGOs and opposition figures condemn the cash offer.