In response to the continued mass deportation of Afghan refugees with documents from Pakistan, Amnesty International says that this process endangers the lives of many refugees.
Today (Monday, 25 March), Amnesty International has written on its X page that the continued deportation of Afghan refugees with documents by the Pakistani government is cause for concern and this process endangers the lives of many refugees.
This organization has asked the world community and international organizations to speed up the process of asylum and resettlement of Afghans in Pakistan.
Amnesty International has also asked the government of Pakistan to stop the mass deportation of Afghan refugees and treat them according to international laws.
However, Pakistani media have reported that Pakistan is preparing to launch a second phase of deportations aimed at deporting nearly one million Afghan “documented” migrants.
Dan newspaper has written in a report that the district and police officials have been ordered to establish the location and collect information about the whereabouts of these immigrants throughout the country.
In this report, an official, who did not want to be named, said that the district administrations and the police have received orders to speed up the location of Afghan citizenship card holders.
But; There is no word yet on the start date of this process, and it is expected that the process of deporting hundreds of thousands of ID card holders will begin in early to mid-summer, and this process is pending the approval of the new government of Pakistan.
Meanwhile, United Nations statistics show that 2.18 million Afghan refugees live in Pakistan.
This figure includes 1.3 million immigrants who received cards in 2006 and 2007 and another 880,000 who received these cards in 2017.
However, with Pakistan’s deadline for deporting illegal immigrants ending on November 1, 2023, over the past few months, more than thousands of Afghan immigrants have entered the country through Kandahar’s Torkham and Spin Boldak borders.
