More than a million Afghan refugees in Pakistan have just days left to leave the country, throwing them and their loved ones all over the world, including in Australia, into disarray, according to Special Broadcasting Service.

Disregarding calls by local and international human rights bodies, the Pakistani government plans to go ahead with rounding up and deporting 'undocumented' Afghan refugees back to the war-ravaged country after setting a deadline of 1 November 2023.

The aftershocks of this decision are resonating worldwide among the Afghan diaspora, including in Australia.

Brisbane-based Yasmeen Nazaryar managed to escape Taliban persecution in Afghanistan by risking her own life, but two years have passed since she tried to get her three children to safety.

She told SBS Urdu that her three children - two daughters and a son - are anxiously waiting to sort out their Australian visas in Pakistan but are now faced with the grim threat of deportation.

As the Taliban rose to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, thousands of refugees fled to neighbouring Pakistan to escape persecution.

There, they joined over a million of their compatriots struggling to settle and integrate since their arrival during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan over four decades ago.

Together, both groups of Afghans now make up the largest number of refugees living in the cities, villages and towns of Pakistan.

Conservative estimates by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, suggest about 1.3 million Afghan refugees are legally registered with them and 88,000 others also have legal justification to stay.

However, Pakistan’s interim interior minister, Sarfaraz Bugti, has stated that 1.7 million Afghan refugees are living illegally in Pakistan and “must exit” before 1 November.

In a statement supplied to SBS Urdu, the High Commissioner for Pakistan to Australia, Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, said, "Pakistan will continue to host over 1.4 million Afghan refugees who are registered with the Government of Pakistan with generosity and empathy despite our resource constraints and economic challenges."