KARACHI: A heavy contingent of police under the leadership of SSP District East conducted an operation against illegal resident foreigners at the site on Superhighway Yathrib Goth.
On the second day of the operation by the federal government to send the illegally staying foreigners to their respective countries, in the early morning of November 2, a heavy contingent of police led by SSP East Irfan Ali Bahadur in Yathrab Goth area of Site Superhighway.
In the operation, SP Sohrab Goth, SP Gulshan Iqbal, SHOs of all the police stations of District East and a large number of police officers including the head maharr participated, while a large number of women officers and personnel were also present in the operation.
Earlier, all the streets of Yathrab Goth were cordoned off and police mobiles were parked at the entrances and no one was allowed to leave the area.
A heavy contingent of police along with the officers entered the streets of Yathrab Goth together and entered the houses of the female officers by knocking on the doors of the houses, while their men were called outside the houses to get their identity cards and non-issued ID cards from the government. The station cards issued to the citizens were checked. Several residents of Yathrib Goth have confirmed that they are Afghan nationals but have Afghan national cards issued by the government of Pakistan.
The police confirmed their identity card and Afghan national card through the search app. There were also several families whose cards had expired. Such persons and their families were detained by the police and sent to the police station for further investigation. Transferred while dozens of people were declared clear after verification from the search app.
The detained persons said that they have Afghan national cards issued by the government of Pakistan, but the police have asked them to leave the country by this evening.
They said that they have been living in the same area for more than 40 years and they have businesses here. “How is it possible for them to leave the country? They can go to Afghanistan by selling their businesses, houses, etc,” they said.
SSP East Irfan Ali Bahadur said that on the orders of the federal government, an indiscriminate operation is being conducted against all illegally staying foreigners. Most of them were Afghans who had voluntarily gone to their respective countries from Pakistan. Those who did not take advantage of this respite are now being operated to sent them to their countries according to the law.
He said that the operation would end only when it was confirmed that no foreigner was residing illegally in Karachi.
