Pakistan's emphasis on continuing to deport Afghan refugees
Eviralnews,, Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsen Raza Naqvi, in a meeting with Indrika Ratawate, the deputy humanitarian affairs representative of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), emphasized that no person is allowed to be in Pakistan without residency documents.
In this meeting, he declared the role of the United Nations and the international community in the return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan as important.
“Dawn News” newspaper, citing sources, reported that in the second phase of deporting Afghan refugees from the country, people with Afghan citizenship cards (ACC) will also be deported.
Official statistics indicate that the number of refugees with Afghan citizenship cards in Pakistan reaches about 850 thousand people who have spent years and decades in this country.
“Mohammad Ali Saif”, the spokesman of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, had previously stated that Afghan nationals who legally live in Pakistan should not be “harassed or deported”, referring to the beginning of the process of mass deportation of Afghans with legal documents in this country.
He also warned that any action in this regard could strain the relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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