Pakistan’s interior minister emphasized on the continued deportation of Afghan refugees
The interior minister of the new government of Pakistan stated that all asylum seekers without residency documents, including Afghan nationals, should return to their country. |
According to the regional office Tasnim News, “Mohsen Reza Naqvi”, the Minister of Interior of Pakistan announced in a press conference that all immigrants and asylum seekers without residency documents, including nationals living in Pakistan, should return to their country.
He makes these statements while the authorities of this country recently announced their decision to begin the second phase of deporting Afghan refugees.
Previously, in October of this year, the interim government of Pakistan led by Prime Minister Anural Haq Kakar decided to deport all Afghan refugees from this country.Pakistan first began the process of deporting migrants who do not have any residence or immigration documents with them. In the second stage, immigrants who have the “Afghan Citizens Card” immigration document will be deported, and in the third stage, immigrants who have the UN immigration card will be deported.
Since November 10, more than half a million Afghan refugees have been deported by the Pakistani security forces en masse in the framework of the first phase.
In the past days, the Interior Ministers of Sindh and Punjab states, by the order of the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan, started the process of identifying and determining the location of immigrants with “Afghan citizenship cards”. have started.
© | Webangah News Hub has translated this news from the source of Tasnim News Agency |