Even years after the Taliban’s takeover, thousands of Afghans continue to go to Germany with admission commitments. In Pakistan, arrests and deportations threaten.
August 2021: The radical-Islamist Taliban again take over the power in Kabul. The CDU MP Friedrich Merz offers all the protection that have worked for the Germans in Afghanistan: local forces such as translators and employees of aid organizations.
Merz wants to bring her to Germany – and not only her: “We take women who have been active there as mayors or as a member of local agencies when they are persecuted, we take them,” he said at the time.
Four years later, more than 35,000 people from Afghanistan have found protection on special recording programs in Germany. Merz is now Chancellor. He and his interior minister only want to know anything about the recording programs of the traffic lights – they were stopped.
Waiting more than 2,000 people with commitments
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Even though around 2,300 people with firm commitments are still waiting for their visas and the departure – some have been waiting for many months. They live in Pakistan in guest houses financed by Germany. But the authorities there want to get rid of them – and repeatedly proceed with brachial means against Afghan refugees.
His daughters, 16 and 18 years old, were deported to Afghanistan on Wednesday, reports a lawyer from Afghanistan. He does not want to give his name publicly. He had a promise for Germany in writing for himself and his family. But now he is just afraid in Islamabad.
35 people deported to Afghanistan
According to information, around 280 people with admission commitments for Germany are ARD capital studios have been arrested in Pakistan in the past few days. Around 35 were deported to Afghanistan. Many others live in constant fear of arrests.
Lea Reisner, member of the Bundestag of the Left Party, is outraged: “I find it incredibly shameful for this country that not much, much faster was traded and the promised reception commitment was not implemented for these people.”
Foreign Office sees commitments as legally binding
Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul from the CDU recently assured: the federal government adheres to its promises; The Federal Foreign Office considers them to be legally binding. The arrests in Islamabad can be seen with great concern.
But Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CS) insists on renewed checks: “There is a individual case examination about each individual, whether there is a corresponding commitment, a legally binding commitment commitment. If that was the fall, a admission procedure and a safety test follow.”
Allegation of the delay tactics
Critics see this. Because those affected have already been checked intensively. The Afghan Lawyer in Islamabad, who worries about his daughters, appeals to the federal government to comply with their commitments: “My only request,” he says in ARD-Interview“Support us. We are not sure in Afghanistan. We have campaigned for democracy and human rights and are now in danger.”
And he turns directly to the federal government: “Don’t leave us alone,” he says, “pave the way for the transfer to Germany.”
