A well in the front and a ditch behind! 30 lakh Afghans will be in trouble, Shahbaz government took this dangerous decision
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Pakistan has decided to expel about 3 million Afghan citizens from the country this year. The last date for Afghans living in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and surrounding areas to leave the country is ending on Monday (March 31, 2025).
According to the report of news agency AP, the decision to expel foreigners, especially Afghan citizens, living illegally in Pakistan, was taken in October 2023. This campaign of Pakistan has been strongly criticized by human rights groups, the Taliban government and the United Nations.
10 days’ time given due to Eid
According to the documents of the Pakistani government, foreign nationals living illegally in Pakistan were to be expelled from April 1, but due to the festival of Eid, this campaign will now be run from April 10. According to the data of the International Organization for Migration, about 8,45,000 Afghans have left the country in Pakistan during the last 18 months.
‘1 million Afghan citizens have no documents’
Pakistan says that there are still about 3 million Afghans left. Out of 13,44,584 people, 8,07,402 people have Afghan citizen cards. Apart from this, 1 million Afghan citizens do not have any documents. The Pakistan government says that once the Afghan citizens go back, they will not be allowed to return to the country again.
According to Pakistani officials, they want all those who have Afghan citizen cards to leave the areas of Islamabad and Rawalpindi by March 31 and go back to Afghanistan. Apart from this, those who have registration documents can stay in Pakistan till June 30.
‘Hatred towards Pakistan will increase more among Afghans’
On this decision of Pakistan, the Taliban government of Afghanistan says that their citizens should be sent back in the right manner. According to the documents of the Pak government, no one from the Afghan government will be involved in this entire deportation process. Afghanistan Refugee Ministry spokesman Abdul Muttalib Haqqani told the Associated Press, “The Pakistan government has taken this decision without involving the Taliban government, the United Nations and other refugee agencies. We had told them our problems. We had told them that expelling people like this is not in the interest of both Pakistan and Afghanistan and this kind of expulsion will increase hatred towards Pakistan among Afghans even more.”
