New flight brings endangered Afghans to Berlin - discussion sparked!

New flight brings endangered Afghans to Berlin - discussion sparked!

In the past few weeks, Germany has again organized charter flights to bring endangered Afghans to Berlin. On March 5, 2025, an aircraft with 132 Afghans from Islamabad, which had received an admission to Germany, landed. These people, including former local forces and their families, have been persecuted by the Taliban, as a spokesman for the German Interior Ministry confirmed. A previous flight on February 25 brought 155 Afghans to the capital, with more than half also part of the federal recording program for particularly endangered persons, t-online more deportations according to Afghanistan. Critics within the CDU and CSU accuse the Federal Government of having suspended the entrance programs for campaign purposes and then revived. Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster speaks of a "remarkable intolerance" of the federal government and calls for an immediate stop of the recording programs.

Meanwhile, other politicians such as the former Green Chairman Omid Nouripour, who described the criticism of the returns as "indecent" and questioned the policy of deportations. While the debates on the admission and deportation of Afghans continue, the situation remains tense for many endangered Afghans in Pakistan, where they have to wait for their entry to Germany or other western states. The German government is exposed to both domestic political pressure and humanitarian responsibility towards the persons concerned.