report in The Nation online, Dec 20, 2023 at 9:26 AMRepatriation of illegal foreign nationals including Afghans to their homeland is continuing in a dignified and safe manner. As per details, 1586 illegal Afghan nationals returned to their country on Monday taking the total number of returned immigrants to 438,376. The apex committee of the National Action Plan (NAP) in a meeting on October 3, chaired by Caretaker PM Anwaarul Haq Kakar gave a deadline…
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report in Dawn, November 15th, 2023• FM Jilani calls for collective action against terrorism• Azizi seeks release of thousands of Afghanistan-bound containers stuck at portISLAMABAD: The Taliban’s acting commerce minister met Pakistan’s foreign minister in Islamabad this week, an Afghan embassy statement said on Tuesday, discussing trade and how the thousands of Afghan citizens Pakistan is expelling could take cash and other assets back to their homeland. The visit takes place less than a week…
report in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2023.PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq on Sunday said the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan should form a joint commission for the “dignified” return of Afghan refugees to their homeland and chalk out a strategy agreed upon by both sides for this purpose. “Pakistan has been hosting the Afghans for several years. Expelling them on an emergency basis will boost the morale of the common enemies of both the…
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…
Reuters report in Prothom Alo, June 9, 2023Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh protested on Thursday, demanding to be repatriated to Myanmar, so they can leave behind the squalid camps that they have lived in since fleeing a brutal military crackdown in their homeland in 2017. More than a million Rohingya are crammed in the camps in southeastern Bangladesh, which have become the world’s largest refugee settlement. Most a crackdown by Myanmar’s military…