The Sindh government has decided to set up 'housing facilities' in Karachi and Sukkur to lodge illegal Afghan immigrants before their deportation, Dawn reported.
The caretaker Home Minister retired Brigadier Haris Nawaz, disclosed this information while also announcing plans for the deportation of all undocumented immigrants living in Sindh.
The Islamabad police have asked all illegal immigrants in Pakistan to shift to a camp set up for them at I-12 on a voluntary basis within 48 hours, Dawn reported.
As Pakistan's law enforcement agencies have continued their crackdown on people they call 'illegal aliens', a sizeable number of families have been crossing the border into Afghanistan over the past week.
Amid the ongoing row between Pakistan and Afghanistan over Afghan immigrants, Balochistan's Caretaker Information Minister Jan Achakzai said that Pakistan holds the sovereign right to expel any individuals, including those from Afghanistan if necessary, reported ARY News.
According to the latest UN figures, some 1.3 million Afghans enjoy the status of registered refugees, while another 880,000 have legal status to stay in Pakistan. At least 700 Afghans have been arrested since early September in Karachi alone, and hundreds more in other cities, police figures
New Delhi [India], October 4: Studying abroad is a transformative decision, catapulting a student's education and career graph many notches higher. It's no surprise that many youngsters today consider overseas education for higher studies. According to the Union Ministry of Education, 7.5
Pakistan’s caretaker federal government has set November 1 as the deadline for illegal immigrants to leave the country or else face deportation, ARY News reported.
Following the ongoing migrant crisis, billionaire Elon Musk visited the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas on Thursday and live-streamed his tour of the area to give people a sense of the real situation of the migrant crisis, reported Fox News.