Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 12, 2023 at 10:04 PMThe Afghans who were deported from Pakistan following Islamabad’s deadline for undocumented refugees, said that they are struggling with cold weather. The deportees said that they were forced to leave everything behind in Pakistan and that they are now facing dire conditions. Pari Gul, 80, was living in Pakistan for 40 years. “We have spent 40 years in Pakistan. We have done farming. They have forcefully…
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By Saleem Jadoon in Pakistan Today, Nov 2, 2023ISLAMABAD/SWAT/KARACHI: The government on Wednesday initiated a nationwide operation to deport the illegal foreign nationals including Afghans following expiry of the deadline set for repatriation voluntarily. The Interior Ministry, for the first time in country’s history, has issued instructions to all provinces to deport illegal foreigners under the Foreign Act 1946. The caretaker government has warned of strict legal action if any Pakistani is found to be…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 2, 2023The government on Wednesday began rounding up undocumented foreigners, most of them illegal Afghans refugees, in all parts of the country after a midnight deadline for them to leave the country expired. The removal of the people to temporary holding centres began a day earlier than previously announced. Moreover, the interior ministry said 140,322 people had already left voluntarily. Afghans made up the bulk of those to have…
Reuters in The Express Tribune, Oct 31st, 2023.KARACHI: As the clock ticked down to the Nov. 1 deadline Pakistan set for undocumented migrants to leave the country, Muhammad Rahim boarded a bus from Karachi to the Afghan border. “We’d live here our whole life if they didn’t send us back,” said the 35-year-old Afghan national, who was born in Pakistan, married a Pakistani woman and raised his Pakistan-born children in the port city – but…
by Imran Ayub in Dawn, October 19th, 2023KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leadership on Wednesday accused the ‘state’ of making all-out efforts to bring back PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, even at the cost of damaging democratic norms and delaying general elections beyond the constitutionally-mandated deadline. While addressing a rally marking the 16th anniversary of Karsaz bombing on ex-premier Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming convoy that claimed over 200 lives, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari though welcomed the…
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.…
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…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 1, 2023A cloud of uncertainty continues to hang over Koshi government formation. With just a day left for the deadline set by the province head, parties have failed to seal a deal and find a way to muster a majority. Key provincial leaders of the Nepali Congress-led alliance are in Kathmandu to discuss the matter with the central leadership and find a way out. Though they claim…