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Pakistan National Cricket Team: As deadline to leave Pakistan expires, official says over 100,000 Afghans gone home
PESHAWAR: Pakistani officers reported that greater than 100,000 Afghan nationals had returned to their Taliban-ruled homeland previously two weeks, as a deadline for undocumented immigrants to depart Pakistan was set to run out by the top of Wednesday.
A senior official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a northwestern province bordering Afghanistan, gave the quantity for individuals who had left through the primary Torkham border crossing.
“A few of them have been dwelling in Pakistan for greater than 30 years with none proof of registration,” deputy commissioner Abdul Nasir Khan stated.
An as but undetermined quantity have additionally gone again through Chaman, the border city within the southwestern province of Balochistan.
Earlier in October, Pakistan warned it will expel all undocumented immigrants, together with tons of of hundreds of Afghan nationals, who remained within the nation after Nov. 1.
The federal government stated an operation to spherical up and expel folks would begin on Thursday.
Greater than 4 million Afghans reside in Pakistan, of which some 1.7 million are undocumented, in keeping with authorities estimates. Many are households who fled throughout many years of battle that Afghanistan has suffered because the late Nineteen Seventies, whereas the Taliban takeover following the U.S. withdrawal in 2021 led to a different exodus.
Taking its hardline stance, the Pakistan authorities has stated Afghan nationals have been behind militant assaults, smuggling and different crimes in its territory.
Kabul dismissed the accusations and rights teams protested, asking Pakistan to rethink.
A senior official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a northwestern province bordering Afghanistan, gave the quantity for individuals who had left through the primary Torkham border crossing.
“A few of them have been dwelling in Pakistan for greater than 30 years with none proof of registration,” deputy commissioner Abdul Nasir Khan stated.
An as but undetermined quantity have additionally gone again through Chaman, the border city within the southwestern province of Balochistan.
Earlier in October, Pakistan warned it will expel all undocumented immigrants, together with tons of of hundreds of Afghan nationals, who remained within the nation after Nov. 1.
The federal government stated an operation to spherical up and expel folks would begin on Thursday.
Greater than 4 million Afghans reside in Pakistan, of which some 1.7 million are undocumented, in keeping with authorities estimates. Many are households who fled throughout many years of battle that Afghanistan has suffered because the late Nineteen Seventies, whereas the Taliban takeover following the U.S. withdrawal in 2021 led to a different exodus.
Taking its hardline stance, the Pakistan authorities has stated Afghan nationals have been behind militant assaults, smuggling and different crimes in its territory.
Kabul dismissed the accusations and rights teams protested, asking Pakistan to rethink.
