report in Dawn, Dec 18, 2023QUETTA: The Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) has warned that it would launch demonstrations in all Pakhtun-dominated areas of Balochistan from Tuesday (tomorrow) if the demands of protesters staging a sit-in in the border town of Chaman for the last two months were not accepted. Speaking at a press conference along with former provincial minister Dr Hamid Achakzai and other party leaders, PkMAP Secretary General Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal lamented that…
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by Baqir Sajjad Syed in Dawn, Dec 8th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch on Thursday cautiously addressed media reports alleging that Sirajuddin Haqqani, Afghan Taliban’s Interior Minister and a senior leader of the Haqqani Network, in the past used a Pakistani passport for international travel. Responding to queries at the weekly media briefing, Ms Baloch said: “I have just seen the report. I do not have the facts to respond to your question.…
By Umar Cheema in The News, Dec 7, 2023ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani was among thousands of Afghan citizens who had Pakistani passports until recently. The News has learnt from interior ministry officials that these passports were issued from different cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh. Haqqani was issued a Pakistani passport for five years which he used to travel abroad, particularly to Qatar for negotiations with the United States for the signing…
report in TOLOnews, Nov 26, 2023Local officials of Herat said that the Iranian government has started the process of deporting those Afghan immigrants who have passports and visas. According to them, the Iranian police tore the passports and visas of some Afghan immigrants and violently expelled them from this country. Abdullah Qayoumi, the head of immigration affairs at Islam Qala port in Herat, said that a large number of legal immigrants deported from Iran enter…
by Muhammad Ilyas/Aihtesham Khan/Razzak Abro in The Express Tribune, Nov 8, 2023PESHAWAR/ LAHORE/ KARACHI: Zain Ijaz, a resident of Gujrat, had a long-standing dream of studying in the United Kingdom. When he finally secured admission to a university in the UK, it seemed like his dream was within reach. However, an extraordinary delay in obtaining his passport now threatens to shatter his aspirations. A scarcity of lamination paper, which is used in passports and is…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, October 23th, 2023QUETTA: Workers, supporters and members of all party traders’ alliance continued their sit-in in Chaman for the second consecutive day on Sunday, protesting against the government’s decision to make valid passports and visas mandatory for crossing Pak-Afghan border. The Pakistani government has decided to restrict border crossing to only those with valid passports and visas, effective from November 1. After October 31, no one will be allowed to…
By Kasun Warakapitiya in The Sunday Times, May 28, 2023 The Chinese Embassy has requested local authorities to deport a Chinese businessman, who on Thursday, attempted to enter Sri Lanka on a forged passport, Immigration officials said. However, the businessman Li Pan, is refusing to go to China and has now petitioned the Court of Appeal against his deportation. The case is being heard tomorrow, Immigration and Emigration Controller General I. S. H. J. Ilukpitiya…