In an ongoing nationwide crackdown onillegal immigrants, law enforcement agencies have apprehended more than 1,700 Afghan nationals in Karachi for residing without valid documents, Dawn reported. The caretaker Home Minister retired Brigadier Haris Nawaz, disclosed this information while also announcing plan...
Meanwhile, Federal Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti publicly stated that “there are currently 4.4 million Afghans living in Pakistan, of which 1.7 million are thought to be unregistered. The crackdown need not concern any Afghans who have registered with Pakistani officials.” Bugti claimed that “...
capital of Pakistan on May 20, 2014. Pakistani authorities have launched a crackdown on Afghan refugees residing illegally in the country as fears have compounded that the exit of US-led forces in Afghanistan could ignite violence on the border. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal) ...
Afghan, Pakistan leaders like Obama plans -- But questions remain about crackdown on militants, talks with Taliban fightersSebastian Abbot
It added that Pakistan must meet its international legal obligations including the principle of non-refoulement and stop the crackdown against, and harassment of, Afghan refugees across the country. “Amnesty International is also calling on the international community to financially support Paki...
An internally displaced Afghan woman cooks food as her daughter sits next to her inside their tent at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. According to UNHCR some 2.7 million registered Afghans refugees still remain in Pakistan and ...
particularly when it comes to the Rocket Force, and also set back some of Xi’s top modernization priorities, the people said. The graft probe has ensnared more than a dozen senior defense officials over the past six months, in what may be China’s largest crackdown on the country’s mili...
Pakistan’s critics, including India, have dismissed Khan’s promises of a crackdown, saying similar pledges have been repeatedly made by previous governments only to be quietly dropped once attention shifted. They point to Pakistan’s continued failure to arrest Masood Azhar, leader of Jaish-e-...
They are among nearly 1,560 Afghan refugees who will be taken off flight manifests, according to VanDiver and the official. They said the group includes unaccompanied children and Afghans at risk of Taliban retaliation because they fought for the US-backed government that fled as the last US...
Violation of Afghan refugees rights in Pakistan- a myth Pakistan’s deportation of illegal immigrants is a sovereign right driven by security, economic strain, and legal enforcement, yet it faces disproportionate criticism. Meanwhile, the US… ...