New York, Sept. 16 -- India has strongly censured the involuntary repatriation of millions of Afghans while urging the international community to dismantle permissive environments that shelter transnational terrorist networks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan.

India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, expressed profound concern over the humanitarian plight of returning populations, stating, "We also reiterate our deep concern at the humanitarian plight of the Afghan returnees. The Secretary General's Report mentions that, in 2025, 2.9 million Afghans were returned, and until 22 August 2026, another 1.15 million Afghans were returned, most of which were invol...