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Pakistan gives 1.7 million Afghan refugees a month to leave the country
Pakistan’s caretaker government has given all undocumented refugees, including 1.7 million from Afghanistan, until November 1 to leave the country or face arrest and deportation.
Sarfraz Bugti, acting Minister of Interior of Pakistan, said: “Since January, 24 suicide attacks have taken place, including 14 suicide attacks by Afghan nationals. It is known to you that the leadership of the Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) has issued a fatwa [decree] and apparently this fatwa is not respected either. We respect the leadership of the Afghan Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) and we ask them to respect the fatwa and it should be acted upon, and we wonder why it is not acted upon, so we are being attacked by the Afghans, and they are involved in the attacks.”
In reaction to Pakistan’s decision the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate says that inappropriate treatment of Afghan immigrants in Pakistan is not acceptable. He said Pakistan should reconsider its plan in this regard.
Zabihullah Mujahid says that Afghan immigrants are not involved in the country’s security problems. Mujahid added that as long as the Afghan immigrants leave Pakistan on their own accord, the Pakistani government should be patient.
In a video that has been circulating on social media, it can be seen that the Pakistani police are imprisoning Afghan women and children.
This kind of treatment of Pakistani forces with Afghan immigrants has angered Kabul.
“We have used all the legal means, we have talked to the Pakistani authorities, and the delegation that came last week was very serious, [we] shared this matter, and the matter is being followed up through the embassy every day, and we have also used international channels that migrants should be treated humanely; putting pressure on migrants is not the solution, and the accusations against Afghan migrants in Pakistan are also false, and we also ask international institutions to take legal action in this regard.
“And we also ask the international institutions to pay attention to the accepted rights of the immigrants and Pakistan should not expel the immigrants by force,” said Mujahid.
This comes after the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad said Tuesday that despite discussions about the refugees, Pakistan continues to arrest and harass Afghans in the country. A number of Afghans have also been killed under suspicious circumstances. In the past few days, the bodies of four Afghans have been found.
The Afghan embassy in Islamabad said Pakistani police are also arresting documented Afghans.
Meanwhile, a delegation that went from Kabul to investigate the situation of migrants at Torkham crossing said in a press conference on Wednesday that since the IEA returned to power, over 100,000 Afghan migrants have returned to the country through Torkham crossing.
The members of this delegation said the Islamic Emirate is trying to provide the necessary facilities for migrants who return from different countries.
Amid an increase in deportations from Iran and Pakistan, a delegation has been mandated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul to investigate the situation at five border crossings in the country.
Fazal Bari Fazli, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of the Islamic Emirate said that the Islamic Emirate plans to create a temporary camp for those who enter the country from Pakistan.
The members of this delegation say that one of the reasons Pakistan is deporting Afghans is because of upcoming elections. This delegation is made up of representatives from the ministries of immigrants and returnees, agriculture and livestock, rural development, public health, Afghan Red Crescent, and also the disaster management ministry.
Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Afghanistan tomorrow (Tuesday), officials said on Monday.
The Ministry of Transport said that a Turkish Airlines plane will land in Kabul airport on Tuesday.
“Tomorrow, Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Kabul International Airport. There will be four flights between Kabul and Istanbul per week. This is good news for Afghan travelers. For those Afghans who travel to European countries, they can move easily through Turkey,” said Imamuddin Ahmadi, the spokesman of the Ministry of Transport.
However, the Chamber of Commerce and Investment emphasized that visas should be provided to businessmen and citizens of the country, otherwise companies will benefit the most, not Afghan citizens and businessmen.
“Not a single passenger is allowed, the reason is that they do not issue visas. If the Turks don’t start issuing visas, or the Arabs don’t issue visas, the plane will come for the cargo and there will be little movement of people,” said Khanjan Alokozay, a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Investment.
In a meeting with Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Deputy Prime Minister said the Islamic Emirate will participate in the third Doha meeting if its “position” is accepted.
He said that Afghanistan is under the complete control of the Islamic Emirate and that the country “has an Emir” and the government is “obeyed”.
According to a statement issued by Mawlavi Abdul Kabir’s office, the deputy prime minister told DiCarlo: “The previous meeting in Doha was incomplete due to some shortcomings of its organizers, and the position of the Islamic Emirate should be accepted in the next meeting so that the delegation of the Islamic Emirate will participate in it.”
The Secretary General of the United Nations once expressed regret for the Islamic Emirate’s non-participation in the Doha meeting, but at the same time said that accepting the demands of the Islamic Emirate is equivalent to its recognition.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Emirate is asking the United Nations and other countries to recognize them as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
Kabir said that the Islamic Emirate has fulfilled all its obligations and “rules over the entire geography of Afghanistan… There is a central government in all of Afghanistan that has an emir and is obeyed.”
The United Nations is expected to hold the third Doha meeting with the participation of special representatives of countries for Afghanistan, but it has not set a date for it yet.
The Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs of the United Nations meanwhile visited Kabul this week and invited the Islamic Emirate’s officials to participate in the Doha meeting.
According to the deputy prime minister’s office, DiCarlo informed Kabir about the Doha meeting and said that “the Islamic Emirate’s conditions for participating in this meeting are not difficult.”
She expressed hope that a delegation of the Islamic Emirate will participate.
She said that representatives of a number of international organizations and countries have been invited to the Doha meeting, including the World Bank.
Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai, and the country’s former CEO Abdullah Abdullah met with Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs this weekend, regarding the third Doha meeting.
In a statement issued by Karzai’s office, it is stated that during the meeting they emphasized the need to help and support the people of Afghanistan and said that they considered education in Afghanistan essential.
They also emphasized the need for national understanding to achieve peace.
DiCarlo, who is on a trip to Kabul, has already met and discussed numerous issues with a number of officials of the Islamic Emirate.
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