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Govt tightens noose around migrants as ‘refoulement’ commences

by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, November 1st, 2023ISLAMABAD / QUETTA: Although the government-mandated deadline for foreigners illegally residing in Pakistan to leave the country, voluntarily, technically expired at Tuesday midnight, officials across the country suggested that action against those who refused to leave would begin in earnest within the next 24 hours. Talking to reporters in the cap­ital, caretaker Interior Minis­ter Sarfraz Bugti said on Tuesday that the government’s crackdown against stragglers would begin…