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Pakistan’s Crackdown on Afghans

  • September – Pakistan starts crackdown in illegal Afghan immigrants
  • 4 million – Afghans in Pakistan
  • 3.3 million – registered | 1.7 million – undocumented
  • 700,000 – Afghans fled to Pakistan after Taliban’s Afghanistan control in 2021
  • To repatriate undocumented Afghanis
  • Deadline – November 1 | deportation post it
  • Gave them less that 30 days to prepare before deportation
  • Why – Pakistan says | suicide attacks | smuggling
  • 300,000+ since September  
  • Pakistan – not a signatory to the 1951 U.N. convention on refugees
  • 445,000 – Afghans seeking UNHCR settlement – for settlement abroad

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