Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 28, 2023 at 1:08 PMRefugees who went to Balkh province after being deported from Pakistan said that some of their family members are still imprisoned in Pakistan. They complained about the bad treatment of Pakistani soldiers and said that when they returned, their property was stolen in Pakistan. “There were two men in the house, they took one, and then they took our money; after a lot of harassment, we…
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By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews Online, Nov 28, 2023 at 9:26 PMThe transfer of commercial goods from Pakistan’s Karachi port to Afghanistan resumed after fifteen days. The Chamber of Commerce and Investment has said that Pakistan should be committed to complying with trade laws and should allow businesses to transfer their goods to Afghanistan normally. This chamber emphasized that Pakistan should follow international trade laws. “According to the official letter that was published yesterday,…
By Mariana Baabar in The News, November 29, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday summoned a representative of the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad where Pakistan strongly condemned the suicide attack perpetrated on a security forces convoy in the Bannu district on November 26 by an Afghan national. The foreign office demanded the Afghan interim government to take swift “verifiable actions” against all terrorist groups and their sanctuaries. The envoy was also asked to…
By Naveed Samadi in TOLOnews Online, Nov 27, 2023 at 9:21 PMThe acting Minister of Interior, Sirajuddin Haqqani, said that Pakistan—as one of the hosting countries of Afghan refugees—has turned all its good actions regarding the Afghan refugees over the past decades, into hostility. Speaking at a gathering in Ghazni where he was on a visit, Haqqani said that the deportation of the Afghan refugees is against all national and international laws. “The current decision…
By Mumtaz Alvi in The News, November 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Core Committee on Monday gave formal approval to hold the intra-party elections within the time frame given by the Election Commission of Pakistan. During the core committee meeting, the Central Media Department said, important issues including the country’s political situation, organizational activities, ongoing series of repression and fascism against PTI leaders and workers and intra-party elections were discussed. It strongly condemned the arrest…
report in Business Recorder, November 26, 2023SIALKOT: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said the PTI chairman didn’t come into power on his own as he was ‘promoted’ to the office, adding that those behind imposing him on Pakistan were equally responsible for the current state of affairs of the nation. Addressing a PML-N workers’ convention here, he questioned how a country could be managed when the prime ministers are removed, arbitrarily.…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 23, 2023 at 9:09 PMThe UN High Commissioner for Refugees called on Pakistan to stop the deportation of Afghan refugees, saying they face harsh winter conditions and an existing humanitarian crisis. “UNHCR is calling upon the government of Pakistan to halt these mass numbers of returns during this harsh season of winter because the cold in Afghanistan is really deadly and it can take lives,” the agency’s regional spokesman, Babar…
by Shahbaz Rana in The Express Tribune, Nov 22, 2023ISLAMABAD: The European Union (EU) has expressed concerns about cases of forced disappearance and torture as well as restrictions on media freedom in Pakistan. Terming them a violation of international treaties, it has urged Islamabad to implement laws for the protection of economic, social, and political rights. A joint monitoring report released on Tuesday on Pakistan’s Generalised Scheme of Preference, known as GSP-Plus, also raised questions…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, November 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Monday reviewed cases of enforced disappearances at a meeting of the committee of ministers. Separately, Chinese ambassador to Pakistan called on Mr Bugti in Islamabad on Monday. According to the interior ministry’s media wing, caretaker Defence Minister retired Lt Gen Anwar Ali Haider and Law Minister Ahmed Irfan Aslam also attended the meeting. A policy formulation on the issue was…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 20, 2023 at 10:02 PMThe Afghans who were deported by Pakistan, Iran and Turkey called on host countries to stop expelling the refugees. They also voiced concerns over the mistreatment of the host countries’ police towards the Afghan refugees. Nazia, a mother of three children, said that she has recently been deported from Iran. Nazia said that her husband also was arrested by Iranian police. “They took six million [Iranian…