QUETTA: Over 200 Afghan refugees have been arrested in a crackdown in Quetta by the police.
According to the sources, a massive crackdown is being carried out in Quetta and other Balochistan’s areas against the Afghan refugees illegally residing in Pakistan.
Over 200 Afghan nationals have been held in the latest operation.
A crackdown was launched in various parts of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan.
The police and the district administration have resolved that the arrested Afghan nationals will be shifted to the Pak-Afghan border at Chaman and patriated to Afghanistan.
According to the officials, as many as one lac 75 thousand Afghan nationals have been patriated to Afghanistan.
Over 3000 Afghan nationals illegally residing in Karachi have also been sent to the Chaman border in the wake of the national move of the patriation of the foreigner citizens illegally residing across the country.
Pakistan has a clear stance that the country has been hosting the Afghan nationals for a period of over five decades.
Keeping in view the ongoing law-and-order and the security concerns, Pakistan can no longer host the Afghan nationals.
Pakistan seeks for a safe and respectable return of the Afghan nationals to their country.
Once the Afghan citizen make their way back to their country, Pakistan will look forward to enhance the development infrastructure and the employment in the remote areas of Balochistan and KP.
However, ironically, on one hand, Pakistan has had strong resistance from the Afghan government and the Afghan nationals residing illegally, on the other hand, the Afghanistan’s territory is being constantly availed by the Indian-sponsored militant groups like TTP, BLA, Daish and others to launch attacks on the security forces as well as the civilians in Balochistan and KP.
Pakistan has asked the Afghan government on several occasions to ensure that the Afghanistan’s soil should not be used to launch militancy in Pakistan.
