ISLAMABAD: The government has put in place a strategy to evict all aliens living in Pakistan without legal authority when the deadline for them to go back to their countries expires on November 1.
Sources told News Diplomacy that local administrations, police and jail officials would be given powers to detain any illegal foreigners under section 3 of the Foreigners Act 1946. Afghan and other nationals already held in jails in major crimes would not be deported but those held in minor cases would be release and sent back to their country.
The sources said that all Afghan illegal migrants arrested from Punjab will be shifted to a centre in Rawalpindi while those picked form different parts of KP would be taken to centres to be set up at Nowshera and Chamkani. Similarly, illegal Afghans detained form Balochistan would be shifted to Pishin and Qila Abdullah before their deportation to their country.
According to the sources, Afghan illegal immigrants to be picked form Sindh would be kept at two centres in Karachi before being shifted to their country.
It may be recalled that the federal government has set the deadline of November 1 for all illegal aliens in the country to leave and go back to their countries. After the expiry of the deadline, the aliens living in the country without documents would be deported.
Replying to a question about repatriation of illegal foreign nationals, including Afghans, caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar today said, “We only want to regulate the movement of people between Afghanistan and Pakistan so that only individuals with valid documents can move between the two countries.”
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