On the 260th Corps Commanders’ Convention held at Normal Headquarters in Rawalpindi, prime brass of the Pakistan military resolved to totally help the federal authorities’s resolution to repatriate and deport all unlawful foreigners from November 1 onwards, the navy mentioned in a press release.
Presiding over the assembly, military chief Normal Asim Munir directed all authorities involved to help and facilitate the graceful, respectable and secure repatriation and deportation of all unlawful foreigners.
The transfer, which is able to impression roughly 1.7 million undocumented Afghan refugees in Pakistan, is predicted to additional pressure Pakistan’s ties with the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
The order comes as Pakistan grapples with a pointy rise in terror assaults carried out by militants working from Afghanistan soil, a cost Kabul routinely denies.
Pakistan’s caretaker authorities has set October 31 because the deadline for hundreds of undocumented immigrants to depart the nation or danger imprisonment, deportation and forcible expulsion from November 1.
The choice has drawn widespread criticism, with organisations such because the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Amnesty Worldwide calling on the federal government to rethink its plans.
The Taliban-led authorities in Afghanistan has additionally expressed its reservations over the transfer, calling it “unacceptable”.
However, Pakistan is lifeless set on its resolution because it needs to sort out an unprecedented rise in terror assaults from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, an area offshoot of the Taliban.
Pakistani Taliban have hideouts and bases in Afghanistan however often cross into Pakistan to stage assaults on Pakistani forces.
The outlawed group typically declare assaults on Pakistani safety forces.
