Afghan migrants stranded in Pakistan after the US suspends refugee resettlement

After a failed US intervention exposed Afghan civilians to Taliban threats, Washington is retreating from its humanitarian obligations.

By: Mehr Mumtaz, The Ohio State University, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: January 29, 2026

Words: 1,312

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

By Mehr Mumtaz, The Ohio State University

In January 2025, Seema received an email from the International Organization for Migration saying that her flight from Pakistan to the United States, which she and her family were booked on after months of extensive interviewing and background checks by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, had been canceled.

“We had sold our TV and refrigerator,” her husband, Samir, told me during an interview for my dissertation …

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