by Raheed Ejaz in Prothom Alo, Aug 25, 2023Exactly six years ago on this day (25 August), thousands of Rohingya men and women crossed the border over from Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh, in a bid to save their lives. Over the next few months, at least 700,000 Rohingya crossed the Naf river and took shelter in Bangladesh, fleeing from the atrocities of the Myanmar armed forces. Even back then it had been feared that…
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By Shakeel Anjum in The News, August 20, 2023Islamabad : The statistics compiled by the Ministry of Interior, indicate that over one million illegal or undocumented Afghans are living in Pakistan. Most of the illegal Afghans are neither law neither abiding nor living quietly without creating difficulties for the government but creating unrest in the society by their involvement in criminal activities, a report said. “It is disturbing to mention that several armed Afghan migrants…