Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Afghanistan’s foreign ministry says Afghans who helped America’s war effort and have been stuck in Qatar in the hope of reaching the United States, can safely return to Afghanistan.
The statement issued on April 25 by foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi comes after reports emerged that the Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send 1,100 Afghans who assisted the US during its war in Afghanistan and relatives of US service members to Congo.
An organization called #AfghanEvac that supports Afghan resettlement efforts said that US officials had informed the group of discussions between the United States and Congo about taking the Afghan refugees who have been in limbo at Camp As-Sayliyah, a US base in Doha, for the past year.
The State Department said it is working to identify options to “voluntarily” resettle the refugees in a third country, but did not confirm which nations were being discussed. An alternative provided to them was to return to Afghanistan.
