Pakistan is setting up deportation centers to hold migrants living in the country illegally, including an estimated 1.7 million Afghans. The government earlier this month announced a crackdown on illegal migration that's been condemned by the U.N. and Taliban authorities in Afghanistan.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is setting up deportation centers for migrants in the country illegally, including an estimated 1.7 million Afghans, officials said Thursday. It’s the latest development inAnyone found staying in the country illegally from next Wednesday will be arrested and sent to the deportation centers.
Jan Achakzai, a spokesman for the southwestern Baluchistan government, said three deportation centers are being set up. One will be in Quetta, the provincial capital. Azam Khan, the caretaker chief minister for the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said the region will have three deportation centers. More than 60,000 Afghans have returned home since the crackdown was announced, he said.Texas sues Biden administration seeking to stop federal agents from cutting razor wire on borderPakistan’s caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti has said there will be no deadline extension.
The country hosts millions of Afghans who fled their country during the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation. The numbers swelled after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021.U.N. issued a similar appeal
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