Deepfakes are spreading rapidly & the consequences are increasingly dangerous. A manipulated video using my interview with Imran Khan’s sister, Aleema is being shared with false claims about tensions between India & Pakistan. I spoke to digital disinformation expert @raqib_naik

“I’m so confused. Do I buy a home? Or am I going to be deported?” From welcome to worry: Afghans in the U.S. face uncertainty and backlash

Pakistan is no longer the refuge that generations of Afghans once found. One million of them have been expelled or forcibly returned this year. Expulsions are not new, but the indiscriminate nature of the current drive is. Our story with @zalmayzia https://t.co/Gtte8gAwX2

“The State Department instructed its diplomats to stop processing all visas for Afghan passport holders. If visas have been approved and printed but not handed to the applicant, diplomats should destroy the printed visas.” https://t.co/tA5CGhAMuZ

Full update:

135,000 Afghans arrested in Pakistan this year according to UNCHR/IOM latest figures — 12+ times more than last. One million have returned — 3+ times more than last.

We spent a whole year, 2018, investigating the crimes these “Zero Units”nurtured by the CIA committed against Afghan civilians, rushing to scene after scene of their carnage… https://t.co/ff6dxowZW7

WSJ Editorial: Afghan refugees "shouldn’t be blamed for the violent act of one man. Collective punishment of all Afghans in the U.S. won’t make America safer and it might embitter more against the United States" https://t.co/pv7MmUgKVl

The suspected shooter who critically wounded two National guar members in DC was in a ‘Zero Unit’ in Afghanistan. Here’s what we know.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan suspect behind the DC shooting, served for years in the CIA-backed Zero Unit in Kandahar. A childhood friend says he suffered from mental health issues the last time he saw him, a few weeks before the Taliban takeover, and was disturbed by the

Both New Delhi and Islamabad were hit by terrorist attacks this week. With @MujMash we look at how blame game, warmongering, but also restraint have filled the public discourse in Pakistan and India over the past few days. https://t.co/bdS7tzNjJP

"With the amendment's passage, parliament has done what previous dictators could only dream of." 'Military might, judicial bite' is one way of summing up the amendment

On the upcoming constitutional reform in Pakistan, passed in the National Assembly today, that enshrines military power in the constitution and grants lifelong immunity to its army chief and the country’s president: https://t.co/jdsenCcO0C

After a historic first trip to the White House, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa sat down with The Post to discuss the importance of rebuilding Syria’s relationship with the U.S. Read the full interview: https://t.co/JYfE61MVkY

Why are these children, born to unmarried mothers, trapped in Saudi Arabia? Our latest investigation took months to piece together, from Riyadh to villages and towns across East Africa. The story we uncovered was heartbreaking. With @Lattif https://t.co/VqT3QUQbky

Today's terrorist attack in front of an Islamabad courthouse is the first major one to hit the capital in more than a decade. What diplomats had been fearing for weeks amid growing Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions has now materialized.

On why Pakistan keeps making India a key figure in its dispute with the Taliban. by @abidhussayn https://t.co/ThDjqIilgg

More here from my colleague Hannah Beech: "The new cap is the lowest in the history of the decades-old refugee program, and it was made official without consulting Congress." https://t.co/JEvqMXFgtb

The US cap of 7,500 refugees for next year crushes hope for Afghans seeking SIV or refugee status. 3,100 Afghan citizens resettled monthly last year. Under the Trump admin, the number has already fallen by two-thirds.