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Due to the displacement of Afghans back to the country by the Taliban, up to 500,000 families in Afghanistan are on the verge of homelessness, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) stated.
 Nearly 4,000 individuals have been evicted from their improvised homes just in and around Kabul, said Neil Turner, Country Director for NRC in Afghanistan in a statement, adding if a similar approach continued, tens of thousands of people will be on the move once again, and humanitarian organizations will not be able to respond to another massive wave of displaced people, source reported.
The Afghans have been displaced from the Afghan soil due to decades of war, political instability and subsequent economic meltdown that gripped the country since the Taliban took control in August last year.
As a result, several of them settled in enclaves outside of bigger towns that over time developed into informal settlements, reported to sources.
NRC, in a statement also called out the Taliban to focus on long-term solutions for displaced Afghans and urged for the settlement closures in Afghanistan to come to an end.
Moreover, people are alleged to have been driven from the outskirts of Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, and provinces, such as Daikundi by the Taliban. As per the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), up to 500,000 families in Afghanistan may soon become homeless as a result of mounting pressure from the government to send internally displaced people back to their regions of origin.
