Report in TOLOnews Online, Dec 07, 2023 at 3:22 PMThe Iranian Minister of Interior Ahmad Wahidi once again emphasized that the citizens of Afghanistan who are living in Iran illegally should be returned to their country. Wahidi did not name a group or a country, but he added that the “enemy” wants to start anti-Afghan sentiments by creating a conflict between Afghans and Iranians. Wahidi emphasized that Tehran also has plans for immigrants with documents.…
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report in ToloNews, Nov 24, 2023 at 10.01PMNajibullah Haqqani, the acting Minister of Communication and Information Technology, said that the leader of the Islamic Emirate in a cabinet meeting ordered all the ministries to deal with the challenges faced by the immigrants. Officials of the Islamic Emirate in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar said that from the October 23, more than 100,000 Afghans who were forcibly deported from Pakistan have returned to the country through…
Report in Dawn, November 23rd, 2023HYDERABAD: The Jeay Sindh Rahbar Committee, a conglomerate of five nationalist parties, announced on Wednesday staging a rally in Hyderabad on Nov 26 to press the government for expelling illegal immigrants. The committee, which held a meeting with Jeay Sindh Mahaz-Riaz chairman Riaz Ali Chandio in the chair, said that the rally would also focus on other issues like occupation of Indus River and lands, unemployment and exploitation of Sindh’s…
By Amir Wasim in Dawn, November 17th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Rejecting international criticism on the government’s decision to expel “illegal” immigrants from the country, Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on Thursday that Pakistan did not need to provide any explanation on the issue as it was “our sovereign right to implement our immigration laws”. “Our decision to repatriate people who are in violation of our immigration laws, is a decision irrespective of any nationality.…
QUETTA: Three new crossing points will be opened on the border with Afghanistan as the government seeks to expedite the repatriation of illegal Afghan immigrants, according to officials. Pakistan has informed the Afghan government that the new crossings will be opened from Monday (today). In a related development, a report prepared by the Sindh Home Department described illegal immigrants as a security threat and said that provincial demography will be completely altered by 2040 if…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, November 7th, 2023PESHAWAR: A premature closure of Torkham border by the Afghan authorities on Sunday evening left scores of illegal immigrants, including women and children, under the open sky for several hours, compelling the Pakistani authorities to take the risk of shifting the families just before midnight to Peshawar instead of abandoning them at the border crossing. Officials at this side of the border said illegal immigrants were being processed…
by Saleem Shahid | Ibrahim Shinwari | Umer Farooq in Dawn, Nov 5th, 2023PESHAWAR: The caretaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has exempted the illegal immigrants scheduled to resettle in Western countries from the ongoing crackdown on undocumented migrants. The KP home department said in a letter that a list of illegal foreigners destined for third countries was received from the federal Ministry of Interior and individuals destined for third countries would not be subject to arrest.…
by Saleem Shahid | Ibrahim Shinwari | Umer Farooq in Dawn, Nov 5th, 2023PESHAWAR: The caretaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has exempted the illegal immigrants scheduled to resettle in Western countries from the ongoing crackdown on undocumented migrants. The KP home department said in a letter that a list of illegal foreigners destined for third countries was received from the federal Ministry of Interior and individuals destined for third countries would not be subject to arrest.…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 02, 2023 at 8:59 PMThree thousand families have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan through the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar in the last two days following the start of the process of forcible deportation of Afghan immigrants from the country. Local Kandahar officials said that in addition to providing first aid, they also established the framework for the repatriates’ transfer back to their respective provinces. “A total of 2,500 to…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 2, 2023According to an American Media outlet, around 25,000 Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have immigration cases and are waiting for approval of their U.S. visas to avoid being deported. According to Voice of America’s report, 25,000 individuals in Pakistan are eagerly awaiting relocation to the United States, and the U.S. authorities’ plan to prevent their deportation by Pakistan has been rejected. While Pakistan’s deadline for…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Nov 3, 2023The Ministry of Interior of Pakistan has announced that it will soon unveil a mechanism regarding the assets of Afghan immigrants. On Thursday, the Afghan interim government’s embassy in Islamabad stated that the interim Interior Minister of Pakistan has promised to announce a mechanism soon regarding the cash and non-cash assets of Afghan immigrants. The embassy conveyed a message on the social media platform X that…