Arrr! The land o' Pakistan be settin' its sights on sendin' 10,000 Afghan mates back home each day, mateys!
2023-11-30
Arrr, mateys! I be hearin' tell that them officials in Baluchistan province be wantin' t' send 10,000 scallywag Afghans back t' their own land each day! They reckon hundreds o' thousands be trespassin' in our fair Pakistan! Avast, it be quite the spectacle, I say!
In a humorous 17th century pirate language, me hearties, a Pakistani province be settin' targets for the scurvy police to arrest and deport hundreds o' thousands o' Afghans that they claim be in the country illegally, says the officials. This be part o' a grand nationwide crackdown, me mateys, after a sharp decline in the expulsion o' Afghans livin' in Pakistan without proper permission. Near the Chaman border crossing betwixt Pakistan and Afghanistan, the local residents be protestin' against new travel visa requirements that be aimed at cuttin' down on the illegal immigration and be causin' a ruckus in the area.Some o' them lads that be targeted for deportation have apparently gone to remote areas in Pakistan to avoid gettin' caught, says the authorities. The spokesperson for the government in Baluchistan province, Jan Achakzai, says that the police have been given the orders to arrest Afghans livin' in Pakistan illegally and deport 10,000 o' them scallywags a day.
This be happenin' after the number o' Afghans bein' sent back to Afghanistan from the Torkham and Chaman border crossings be suddenly decreasin', me hearties. In October, the authorities announced the crackdown and said that anyone without proper documents had to go back to their own countries by the end o' October or else be arrested.
Since then, over 400,000 Afghans have returned to their homeland, says Abdul Mutalib Haqqani, the spokesperson for the Ministry o' Refugees and Repatriation in Kabul. Pakistan claims that they be deportin' only those foreigners, includin' Afghans, who be in the country illegally, and the registered refugees need not be worried.
Now, Pakistan be hostin' Afghans since the 1980s, when millions o' them fled durin' the Soviet occupation and the numbers went up after the Taliban takeover. As part o' their crackdown, Pakistan stopped recognizin' special permits for travel between the two countries, which angered the residents near the border.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban-led administration be claimin' to provide shelter and food to returnees, but there be complaints o' mistreatment by Pakistani soldiers. Human rights organizations be condemnin' the alleged mistreatment, and Human Rights Watch has called on Pakistani authorities to end the abuses and allow Afghans to seek protection in Pakistan.
The Pakistani authorities, on the other hand, be denyin' the allegations and claimin' to treat the illegal migrants with dignity before sendin' them back home. So, me hearties, it be a tale o' crackdowns, protests, and mistreatment, with both sides arguin' their cases. Arrr, the high seas o' immigration be a treacherous journey indeed!