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Thousands of Afghans who were detained in Pakistani and Iranian prisons have been sent back to Afghanistan as Islamabad and Tehran ramp up the expulsion of Afghan citizens.

In Karachi, the capital of the southern Pakistani province of Sindh, the Taliban’s consul-general, Abdul Jabbar Takhari, said that over 3,000 Afghans detained in the region’s prisons had been sent back during the past year.

“Women and children are among the 3,053 Afghans who were sent back,” he told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi on December 19.

“During the past two months, more than 460 Afghans who had been detained despite…