Category: Pakistan

Pakistan will not expel Afghan refugees holding legal documents: Bugti

Pakistan Interim Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti rejected reports of mistreatment of Afghan migrants by the country’s security forces, and said refugees with immigration cards will not be deported from Pakistan. Bugti made these remarks in a session in the Pakistani Senate on Monday, November 13. He stated that approximately 300,000 illegal Afghan migrants have voluntarily returned to their home country […]

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Preparations made to address migrants’ needs in Balkh: official

Local officials in Balkh province say preparations are made to support and address the issues of immigrants who have been recently evicted from Pakistan. The deputy governor of Balkh Noorul Hadi Abu Idris said that the establishment of a camp with tents, the provision of health services, and the provision of food items are among the most important preparations of […]

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Pakistan to send back ‘registered refugees’ after deporting illegal immigrants

Pakistan will begin the process of returning “registered refugees” to their home countries once it completes the deportation of all illegal immigrants in the country, Balochistan’s acting Minister for Information Jan Achakzai said on Thursday, amid nationwide sweeps to round up foreigners staying illegally in the South Asian country. “So far, 80,000 immigrants from Balochistan have left Pakistan. After this, […]

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The Curious Case Of Pakistan’s Mianwali Air Base Terror Attack – OpEd

In its statement on last Saturday’s terrorist attack on the Mianwali Pakistan Air Force [PAF] training base, Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations [ISPR] mentioned that “3 terrorists were neutralised while entering the base, while remaining 3 terrorists have been cornered/isolated due to timely and effective response by the troops.” It also went on to add that “during […]

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Pakistan’s Security Quagmire – OpEd

Recently, Pakistan has grappled with a complex and precarious security landscape, marred by a surge in militant attacks, political turbulence, and challenges along its borders. The country’s military recently thwarted an attack by a group of fighters on an air force training base in the Mianwali area. Although the attack was successfully averted, the damage caused to three grounded aircraft […]

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Pakistan says nearly 25,000 Afghans waiting for visas to US won’t be deported as part of clampdown

Pakistan’s prime minister on Wednesday sought to reassure thousands of Afghans waiting in Pakistan for resettlement in the United States that they won’t be deported as part of his government’s widely criticized crackdown on undocumented migrants in the country. Islamabad has launched a crackdown on illegal migration, saying any unregistered foreign national and migrant lacking proper documentation would face arrest […]

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Pakistan ‘pressurising’ Afghanistan by deporting migrants: Muttaqi

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) says that the expulsion of immigrants from Pakistan is Islamabad’s way of humiliating Kabul. Amir Khan Muttaqi said despite Kabul having shared its concerns about the forced deportation of migrants with military leaders and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, no action to suspend the […]

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Militants attack air force base in central Pakistan, says military

Nine Islamist militants attacked an air force training base in the central Pakistani area of Mianwali on Saturday damaging three “non-operational” aircraft, the military said, adding that all assailants had been killed by security forces. Three militants were killed before they entered the base while the others had been cornered before the clearance operation began, the military said in a […]

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Insurgents Kill 14 Soldiers in Southwestern Pakistan

Heavily armed insurgents ambushed a military convoy in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province Friday, killing at least 14 soldiers. The attack, one of the deadliest in recent years, occurred in the district of Gwadar, where China runs a deep-water Arabian Sea port. The Pakistani military’s media wing confirmed the incident, saying “perpetrators of this heinous act will be hunted down and […]

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Stanikzai issues stern warning to Pakistan over refugee issue

While condemning the forced expulsion of refugees and their mistreatment by Pakistan, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, deputy foreign minister for political affairs, on Monday warned the country of strong reaction and said that Afghanistan now has a strong army. Speaking at a conference on economic development in Kabul, Stanikzai said that Pakistan’s expulsion of refugees is cruel and a unilateral […]

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