On Tuesday, the Afghan interim government under the Talibanes asked the United Nations on Tuesday and international organizations that guarantee the dignified return of Pakistan Afghan refugees, according to a press release.
In recent days, Pakistan has witnessed hundreds of Afghas dragging their belongings through the borders of Torkham and Chaman when the government began its second impulse of deportations on March 31, which addressed those with Afghan citizen cards, an identity document jointly issued by the Pakistanis and Afghan governments in 2017.
The impulse is part of a larger campaign that the government began in 2023 to repatriate all illegal foreigners. Under the first phase, all undocumented Afghans were deported, those who had no identity proof.
The press release issued from the Afghan Presidential Palace (ARG) in Kabul said that a special meeting chaired by the interim prime minister of the Afghan Taliban regime, Mullah Muhamad Hassan Akhund, asked the United Nations and international organizations to guarantee the dignified return of Afghan refugees.
The session attended by Cabinet members emphasized a strong conviction of these actions compared to fundamental human rights, the statement added.
“The officials described the treatment of Afghan refugees as contrary to the accepted principles,” said the statement, added that the meeting asked people, political parties and influential figures in Pakistan to defend their neighboring responsibilities in this matter.
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“The participants highlighted the positive long data relationships between Afghanistan and Pakistan, emphasizing the importance of maintaining these ties for the benefit of nations and their peoples,” he added.
The meeting participants “warned that inappropriate actions could undermine this relationship,” according to the press release.
“The commitment to promote cooperation and compassion was a central issue, which reflects shared history and cultural connections between the two countries,” said the statement.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation Affairs of the Afghan Taliban issued a separate statement “condemning forced deportation of Afghan refugees of Pakistan.”
As part of the ongoing deportation process, 1,636 national Afghan were deported from Punjab and Sindh on Sunday.
The largest transfer took place in Punjab, where another 5,111 other Afghan citizens were transported to transit camps or retention centers throughout the province for repatriation, including 2,301 children and 1,120 women.
Most of them carried Afghan citizen cards (ACC) that Nadra had issued them after each case verified from the FIA, the Police and other agencies.
Meanwhile, the special envoy of Pakistan for Afghanistan, Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq Khan had warned Monday that “all agreements with Afghanistan are turned off” if the Taliban rulers did not act in Islamabad’s growing concerns regarding the terrorism ever of the soil Afghan.
Pakistani officials have been saying for a long time that the leaders of the armed groups operate from the Afghan soil to launch attacks in Pakistan. Kabul denies the statements.
“TTP (Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan) is a challenge, a great challenge for us. It cannot be tolerated because our children are killed every day. Martyrdom has become so common in certain areas. That is more or less, it would be criminal to ignore that. And we have to find a solution.
“Afghanistan will have to work with us on this. If they are not working with us, then all the agreements are turned off. Nothing could have happened. There would be no more progress at all,” he said.
