In a small rented room in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, ZK (not her real name), a 40 -year -old Afghan woman, lives like a prisoner on her day.
She spends most of her time in cooking, singing, dancing and watching the news.
ZKK, for the Afghan journalist of Badakshan province, is one of the first women to work as a news anchor in Afghanistan. To do this, he broke the obstacles in the Archconsvatic Islamic Society of the country with war-causes.
After snatching the power in Afghanistan in August 2021, they began the progress achieved in the last two decades when it came to the rights of women.
Live in limbo in Pakistan
The ZK fled to Pakistan in 2023, when it was accepted in a German Humanitarian Entry Program designed for Afghans at risk under the rule of the Islamic fundamentalist group.
It was originally a small migration, before he and his children moved to Germany, but now increased for more than two years.
This has left him uncertainty when he will be able to step into the European country.
ZK said it faced frequent harassment by Pakistani authorities, as well as date and exile in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in February.
“I have been living in Pakistan for two years, waiting for my German visa, but the delay in this process has obstructed my journey. In February, I was arrested by Islamabad Police and sent back to Afghanistan with my two sons,” JEDK told DW.
He said, “Thanks to my journalist friends, I managed to follow a visa and return to Pakistan. At the time of my arrest, my daughter was hiding due to fear of police and remained alone in Pakistan,” she said.
Thousands are trapped
After the Taliban acquisition in Afghanistan, the German government promised to make it possible for those whose security is in danger to come to Germany with their families.
Thesis Humanitrian entry programs wanted to help the Afghans working mainly for the German Army, as well as actively people in cultural, economic, scientific and academic fields, and who worked for the Government of Afghan.
For data from Germany’s Foreign Ministry, some 36.300 Afghans have so far come to Germany under relevant schemes, including 20.800 locally employed employees.
But around 2,400 people approved for admission are still waiting in Islamabad in Pakistan, as there is no German diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.
In Pakistan, they are homes in the guest apartments belonging to the German government, while they appear to conduct intimate visa applications and security checks.
Even though many of them have received strong promises from German authorities that they can come to Germany, they now face uncertain future as the current German government, and Chancellor Frederick Merz has promised a tanger storage on shelter and irregular stay.
As a part of that push, Berlin vowed to stop refugee entry programs, and is reviewing whether existing commitments can be canceled.
The situation has left Afghans in Pakistan waiting for rehabilitation in Germany.
‘No country is accepting us’
Meanwhile, Pakistan, which for decades worked as a shelter for the Afghans who migrated from wars or oppressive rule, have launched a series of expulsion and exile drives that targeted Afghan Sion at the end of 2023.
Exile invasive has not only targeted unspecified Afghans, but also that with legitimate papers or in third countries waiting for rehabilitation, it has been discovered as Germany and America.
Aziz Gul, a 25 -year -old Afghan rights activist in Islamabad, expressed his disappointment to DW, saying, “Our hopes are shut down, and we are homeless. No country is confirming us yet.
Gulle, originally in the Maidan Wardak province in Afghanistan, arrived in Pakistan in July 2024 and applied for a Humanitrian visa through a German NGO.
“We have to face the threat of police harassment, Pakistan is forced to exile, and the Taliban will kill me due to my activism in Afghanistan,” he said.
Pakistan denied allegations
Several Afghans DW stated that he was harassed by Pakistani authorities, and feared being in Afghanistan as a result of a delay reset in Germany.
But a Pakistani Foreign Ministry officials, who asked not to name, denied allegations of harassment.
Instead, the officer blamed Germany for “not working quickly to address the situation” and processed the visa applications of the trapped Afghans.
“The pressure should be on Germany, not,” the official said, “the police is currently investigating the status of the unspecified Afghans and is deporting them without a visa or lacks legal documents to live in Pakistan.”
Omar Gilani, a lawyer in Islamabad, provided legal services to Afghan refugees, gave the position of Afghans in Pakistan as “serious”.
He said, “He has been repeatedly harassed by the police and has demanded a continuous expansion of his Pakistan visa, which means that they are in great concern.”
Even if you abandon the costs, Gilani said, “There is no shortage of those whose visas are finished and briefly returned to Afghanistan, leading to their lives and independence.”
Afghan women scared Taliban run Afghanistan forcibly exile
Afghan rights activist in Islamabad said that “the possibility of forcible returning to Afghanistan is deeply concerned.”
Over the years, the Taliban has disappeared women and girls from almost all areas of public life.
Girls have been stopped from going to school beyond the sixth grade, and women have been banned from local jobs and non -governmental organizations.
The Taliban has ordered the closure of the beauty salon and stopped women from going to the gym and park. Women so cannot go out without male parents.
Outside the house, women and girls not only need to hide their face and body, but also have their voices.
“The possibility of wood resulted in imprisonment or even execution for us,” Gaul said.
Female journalist, ZK shares a similar approach. “Returning to Afghanistan means death. Taliban had already killed my husband.”
Edited by: Srinivas Majumdaru
