ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan authorities directed all Afghan nationals dwelling within the nation with out paperwork should go away by November 1, and hundreds flocked to the Pak-Afghan border to return house because the deadline expires at the moment.
Islamabad mentioned the repatriation drive aimed to take away Afghans who’re concerned in unlawful actions within the South Asian nation. To take away undocumented Afghans from the nation, the federal government has fashioned detention facilities in all 4 provinces to carry foreigners and to ship them again forcefully.
As most of them are returning house, some are awaiting resettlement to the US, UK, Germany, Canada, and different European states.
Final month, the federal government mentioned that each one migrants dwelling with out authorized standing within the nation had 28 days (round a month’s time) to depart voluntarily or face deportation.
For the reason that announcement, over 2 lac Afghan immigrants have voluntarily moved again to their international locations from the Torkham border, and different crossings.
Reviews in media recommend that just about 4 million foreigners stay in Pakistan, and a overwhelming majority of them are Afghan nationals who sought refuge over the past 4 a long time following Soviet invasion of Afghanistan within the 80s.
In recent times, round 0.eight million Afghans migrated to Pakistan after the Taliban takeover.
