By Asim Yasin in The News, November 30, 2023
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti Wednesday disclosed that Afghan citizens were involved in most of the terrorist incidents that took place in Pakistan and said the recent suicide bombing on a security forces convoy in Bannu was carried out by an Afghan.
“Afghan citizens were involved in 14 out of 26 terrorist incidents which took place in Pakistan”, he said while briefing the Senate Committee on Interior that met here with Senator Moshin Aziz in the chair.
Senators Kamil Ali Agha, Saiful-lah Abro, Shahadat Awan, Fauzia Arshad, Dinesh Kumar, Sania Nishtar, Sardar Muhammad Shafiq Ta-reen and Samina Mumtaz Zahri participated in the meeting. Bugti told the committee that 400,000 people living illegally in Pakistan had repatriated.
In the first phase 300,000 people repatriated but now their number is close to 400,000, he added. He said 296,000 people repatriated on their own but an impression was given that they were being arrested and sent back.
“We want to bring Pakistan into a system. People enter Pakistan from the Chaman border and do what they have to do and leave. There has been a joke that whoever wants, comes here,” Bugti said.
He said a mechanism would be made within a week concerning the ‘One Document Regime’ in the border area of Chaman and ease of doing business. …..
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