by Umer Farooq in Dawn, Nov 19th, 2023PESHAWAR: With hundreds of undocumented Afghan migrants leaving Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for their country on Saturday, the provincial authorities have identified the “illegal aliens”, who are staying put despite the expiry of the Oct 31 deadline for voluntary repatriation. Officials told Dawn here that the government had conducted another survey to find the foreign nationals continuing to live in the province without documentation. They said that 19 out of…
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by Umer Farooq | Saleem Shahid in Dawn, November 9th, 2023PESHAWAR / QUETTA: ….. Afghan refugees living without legal documents in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan were also leaving for their country through a voluntary repatriation programme of the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, via the border town of Chaman. UNHCR officials in Quetta said that according to the International Organisation for Migration, 1,926 Afghan families consisting of 26,275 individuals were returned to Afghanistan…
By Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, November 3rd, 2023KARACHI: The government machinery employed to identify illegal immigrants and facilitate their repatriation or deportation faced immense hardship in undertaking the process mainly due to a lack of verification devices and record of foreigners, sources said on Thursday. The sources said that the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) officials deputed at the transit centre, at Old Haji Camp, here did not have any record of illegal immigrants…
by Khalid Mehmood in The Express Tribune, Nov 2, 2023ISLAMABAD: A sinister plot to disrupt the deportation of illegal Afghan nationals from Pakistan has come to light, endangering the efforts of the caretaker government to ensure a lawful and peaceful repatriation process. The caretaker government of Pakistan, in line with the rule of law, deployed law enforcement personnel to various holding camps across the country after the deadline for illegal Afghan residents to voluntarily leave…
by Saleem Shahid | Zulqernain Tahir | Umer Farooq in Dawn, Oct 28th, 2023QUETTA / LAHORE / PESHAWAR: As the government-ordained deadline for the deportation of illegal immigrants — mostly Afghans — draws near, authorities have intensified their efforts by setting up ‘holding centres’, and opening additional border crossing points to speed up the repatriation process. To expedite the repatriation of undocumented foreigners to Afghanistan and Iran, the Balochistan government is opening three more crossing…
report in Business Recorder, Oct 16, 2023CHAMAN: Repatriation of Afghan refugees via Chaman-Spin Boltak border to their country Afghanistan continued on Sunday. Till now more than 5000 Afghan refugees have repatriated to their country. By the closure of deadline, repatriation of Afghan refugees was increasing. According to reports, voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan to their country Afghanistan is continuing after Government of Pakistan ordered all illegal immigrants, including Afghan refugees to leave Pakistan.…
report in Dawn, October 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday doubled down on its policy to evict all illegal immigrants — including around 1.7 million Afghan refugees — from the country, saying that the decision was in line with international practices. Meanwhile, as law enforcement agencies continued their crackdown on people they call ‘illegal aliens’, a sizeable number of families have been crossing the border into Afghanistan over the past week. “No country allows illegal…
by Porimol Palma in The Daily Star, May 30, 2023China now appears to be quite active in trying to make the Rohingya repatriation a reality. Some high-profile visits have been made over the last few months. Chinese Special Envoy on Myanmar Deng Xijun visited Dhaka on April 6 and met Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong’s visit ended on Sunday. Weidong met the prime minister. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary…