US EditionThe Taliban registers 1,800 unemployed Afghan refugees for jobs in Qatar
The registration aims to reduce unemployment after 2 million Afghans were expelled from Iran and Pakistan, with last month’s registration including 3,100 workers for Qatar jobs.
- On Aug. 13, 2025, the Taliban registered 1,800 unemployed Afghans expelled from neighboring countries for jobs in Qatar in Kabul.
- This year, expulsions by Iran and Pakistan drove at least two million Afghans to leave, prompting a one-day registration for job opportunities in Qatar in four major cities.
- People with refugee certificates lined up at registration centres in Kabul, Kandahar, Herat and Nangarhar, where Samiullah Ibrahimi said, 'These work visas cover 22 different job categories and the 1,800 visas available are for these jobless Afghan returnees.'
- The Taliban government said the program aims to ease unemployment and is in talks to send labor to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Turkey, and Russia, with amnesty pledged for those who left after 2021.
- Rights groups and the UN warned, 'a UN report last month said that the Taliban tortured and threatened Afghan nationals' over their identity or history, risking persecution.
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Qatar offers thousands of jobs to Afghan refugees
Around 8,000 Afghans have applied for jobs in Qatar, under an expanded labor agreement with Kabul. Doha is offering 1,800 roles in management, engineering, hospitality, and mechanics to the more than four million Afghans who have been deported or pressured to leave Iran and Pakistan in the past two years, according to AFP. For Afghanistan, where jobs are scarce and the economy has been battered since the Taliban takeover, overseas employment is …
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The Taliban registers 1,800 unemployed Afghan refugees for jobs in Qatar
The Taliban is registering 1,800 unemployed Afghans expelled from neighboring countries for the chance to work in Qatar in the latest round of a labor agreement with the Gulf nation.
Returning Afghans rush for chance to work in Qatar under expanded deal
About 8,000 recently returned Afghans have rushed to apply for one of 1,800 chances to work in Qatar after the wealthy Gulf state expanded a deal with Kabul, Afghanistan’s labour ministry told AFP on Thursday. More than four million Afghans have been deported or pressured to leave Iran and Pakistan since September 2023, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration. Afghanistan is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian cri…
Taliban registers 1,800 unemployed Afghan refugees for jobs in Qatar, official says
Published on 13/08/2025 – 20:17 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT The Taliban registered 1,800 unemployed Afghans expelled from neighbouring countries for the chance to work in Qatar on Wednesday, the latest round of a labour agreement with the Gulf nation, a Labor Ministry spokesperson said. The programme is aimed at easing unemployment in Afghanistan and the Taliban has said talks are also underway to send workers to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,…
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