Pakistani Police Warn Migrants About Deadline To Leave Country Through Mosques
As the one-month deadline set by the Pakistan government for migrants expires, the country's police are using mosques to warn them and urge them to leave the country.
As the one-month deadline set by the Pakistan government for migrants expires, the country's police are using mosques to warn them and urge them to leave the country.
Pakistan's interior minister has also warned that action will be taken against those who shelter illegal immigrants, including Afghan nationals.
According to the video clips obtained by Afghanistan International, using the mosques, the Pakistani police have urged the country’s citizens to cooperate in identifying illegal immigrants.
In one of these video clips, it has been seen that the police are destroying a migrant camp in an area of the country’s capital city, Islamabad. It is said that immigrants who do not have a residence permit live in this camp.
Recently, the interim government of Pakistan gave a one-month to the immigrants who do not have legal residency documents to leave the country. Pakistani officials have said that there are about 1.7 million undocumented migrants who must leave the country. The Pakistani government’s deadline ends on Wednesday and most of these illegal migrants are citizens of Afghanistan.
Despite human rights organisations calling on the Pakistan government to reverse the decision to deport Afghan refugees, the country's authorities have not changed the decision to deport them.
