By Azaz Syed in The News, October 13, 2023ISLAMABAD: A large number of Pakistani passports are said to have been issued to Afghan citizens. Saudi Arabia have recovered Pakistani passports from 12,000 Afghan citizens and provided details to the Pakistani embassy, sources told to Geo News/The News. Director General Immigration and Passports Directorate Mustafa Kazi and the Federal Investigation Agency have started an investigation in this regard. As a result of the ongoing investigation, the…
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Report in Dawn, October 9th, 2023Afghan families en route for their homeland wait for clearance in Landi Kotal, Khyber district, on Sunday. — PPIKHYBER: Return of unregistered Afghan nationals gained further momentum as at least 8,000 of them crossed the Torkham border on Sunday while police also started profiling of Afghans living in different parts of Khyber district. Immigration officials at Torkham border told Dawn that over 150 families, mostly unregistered but in possession of…
By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, October 09, 2023PESHAWAR: Thousands of Afghan families living in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are concerned about their stay in Pakistan after the government’s deadline for the unregistered foreigners to leave before October 31. The deadline is for the undocumented foreigners who neither possess any proof of registration (PoR) card issued by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees nor any visa or other document to legalize the stay in Pakistan.…
Report in Dawn, October 8th, 2023CHARSADDA: Awami National Party provincial president Aimal Wali Khan came down hard on Pervez Khattak, the chief of newly-formed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Parliamentarians (PTI-P), insisting he was the most known turncoat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s politics. He was speaking at a party’s workers’ convention in PK-65 constituency here on Saturday. ANP district president Shakeel Bashir Khan Umarzai, candidate for PK-65 Shahzaduddin, and member of the party’s central committee Qasim Ali Khan also…
Report in The News, October 07, 2023JAMRUD: The repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan has accelerated and dozens of Afghan refugees returned to their country on Friday. It may be recalled that the government set a deadline the illegal Afghan refugees living in Pakistan to leave the country by 31 October. The illegal Afghan immigrants have started leaving Pakistan and are returning to Afghanistan along with their families. The Customs officials at Torkham said that…
by Tahir Siddiqui in Dawn, October 7th, 2023KARACHI: A meeting of the Sindh Apex Committee, attended by caretaker Chief Minister retired Justice Maqbool Baqar and Chief of Army Staff Gen Syed Asim Munir, was informed on Friday that pockets where illegal Afghan nationals were concentrated in the province had been identified. The provincial government informed the meeting that an action plan to implement the federal government’s policy on illegal foreigners’ repatriation plan had been shared…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews,Oct 4, 2023 at 8:59 PMThe Islamic Emirate denied the remarks of the Pakistani official alleging involvement of Afghan refugees in the suicide bombings which have recently ripped the country. The Islamic Emirate’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said on X that the Afghan refugees are not involved in the attacks and that Islamabad seeks to harass them under various pretexts. “We deny that if the refugees settled in Pakistan, they would have…
AFP report in Dawn, Sept 29, 2023KARACHI: The cow had been slaughtered and bags of rice purchased, but young bride Wahida’s nuptials were cut short when her groom was arrested on their wedding day, one of hundreds caught in a recent crackdown on Afghans living in Pakistan. The 20-year-old now lives with her in-laws at the Afghan Muhajir aid camp in Karachi, but without her husband-to-be, a registered refugee. “We are without hope,” the groom’s…
By Ansar Abbasi in The News, Sept 29, 2023ISLAMABAD: The government will soon announce one-month deadline for all illegal foreign immigrants, including Afghans, to leave the country or face the music. After the one-month deadline, a major countrywide crackdown will be launched by the law-enforcement agencies to identify and deport such illegal immigrants, the vast majority of whom are said to be Afghans. Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti will announce the policy in a few days…
report in The News, Sept 18, 2023NOWSHERA: The police here on Sunday arrested two Afghan brothers on the charges of making indecent remarks against Pakistan and its state institutions on social media platforms. Khanzeb Khan, in-charge of Bara Banda police post in Nowshera, said that a case was registered against the two Afghan brothers Naheed Khan and Hameedullah hailing from Afghanistan and currently living in Sherin Kothay area in Nowshera and arresting them. The official…
report in Khaama Press online, Sept 5, 2023The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has reduced rations for an additional two million Afghans this month. The agency’s country director has raised concerns about an impending “catastrophic” winter if funding is depleted, leaving remote communities with insufficient food supplies. Amidst increasing concern over declining aid for Afghanistan, the reduction in rations occurs. The UN humanitarian response plan for the country is currently only a quarter funded despite…