Overview

• Pakistani police have arrested around 400 Afghans in Islamabad who held German resettlement approvals, with dozens already deported to Afghanistan and some sent to the Torkham border for forced returns.
• German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt confirmed that Berlin has paused its admission programme and is reviewing case by case whether stranded applicants can still travel to Germany.
• Some 2,200 Afghans remain in Pakistan awaiting entry under Germany’s admission programme, and courts have repeatedly ruled that the government must honor resettlement commitments despite ongoing visa delays.
• The United Nations warns that Pakistan’s broader deportation campaign could expel over one million Afghans before the September deadline, raising non-refoulement and protection concerns under Taliban rule.
• PRO ASYL and the Patenschaftsnetzwerk Ortskraefte filed a criminal complaint accusing Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt of abandonment and failure to render assistance for allowing approved Afghans to be deported.