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India-Pakistan
Illegal Afghans given a month to leave KP
2012-04-27
[Dawn] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
government here on Wednesday set a one-month deadline for illegal Afghan nationals to leave the province or face legal action.

District Coordination Officer Siraj Ahmad Khan told a presser that illegal Afghan nationals should leave the province by May 25 otherwise they would be treated according to the law of the land.

"Police will arrest illegal Afghan nationals under 14 Foreign Act and they will be deported to their country after May 25," said Mr Khan, who was accompanied by Commissioner for Afghan Refugees Zaheerul Islam.

He said that the government had decided to expel illegal Afghan nationals from the province and action would be started from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar where approximately 400,000 undocumented Afghans were residing.

"Peshawar has been overburdened because of influx of internally displaced persons and prolonged presence of Afghans," the DCO said.

He added that illegal Afghan nationals were involved in criminal activities.

He said that illegal Afghans had overburdened Peshawar's infrastructure and had also role in lawlessness.

Mr Khan said that registered Afghan refugees possessing valid Proof of Registration (PoR) cards had been exempted till December 2012.

The federal government had issued PoR cards to 1.7 million refugees, residing in 42 camps and in urban areas.

Pakistain, sheltering the largest refugee population since early 1980s, Afghanistan and United Nations
...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas...
High Commissioner for Refugees had signed a tripartite agreement to legalise stay of registered Afghans till December next.

The government has been issuing such deadlines to illegal Afghans since 2001, but did not implement the same. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
police had launched a crackdown against Afghan prayer leaders some time ago and deported many of them.

According to officials, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is hosting 1.2 million Afghans including 400,000 illegal. A large number of Afghan nationals has been running different businesses in the province.
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