Sources told Reuters that Canada will accept about a thousand Afghans who fled their country after the Taliban took control of it, and for several months they were held in a temporary refugee center in the UAE awaiting resettlement in the United States and other countries. .

Canada has granted a US request to resettle some of the 5,000 Afghans still in the Emirates humanitarian camp in Abu Dhabi, the sources indicated, and Canadian officials are currently reviewing cases to identify those who meet their country’s criteria for resettlement.

For the first time, there was talk of relocating Afghans at the facility to a country with which they have no direct connection, as if they were working with its government in Afghanistan.

Canada’s criteria for relocating prisoners include religious minorities, single women, government employees, social work activists and journalists, sources said.

The sources added that in addition to the 1,000 people Canada will accept at the request of the United States, it is expected to also accept about 500 other Afghans from the facility with ties to Canada.