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KARACHI: Illegal residents have been voluntarily repatriating from Pakistan, mostly Afghan refugees as of yesterday, around 2,225 more people returned to their homeland.
According to the details, more than 228,000 illegal Afghans have returned from Pakistan and the voluntary repatriation of more Afghan citizens is going on. The government had set a deadline of 31 October.
A total of 228,574 illegal Afghans have returned to their homeland since last month. Only on Wednesday, 522 families returned home in 219 vehicles, including 604 men, 534 women, and 1,87 children.
Pakistan’s neighboring country, Afghanistan, has not expressed a positive reaction to the process of expelling Afghans from Pakistan in large numbers, but the caretaker government said that the return of Afghans to their homeland has become inevitable for Pakistan.
People residing illegally in the country have been given a grace period to evacuate, while residents with legal documents are not being deported. The government has established transit camps equipped with all facilities in various districts for temporary accommodation of illegal residents.
Daily, thousands of illegal Afghans have been returning to Afghanistan, their home country, through the Torkham and Chaman border and even now there are a large number of illegal residents on the Chaman and Torkham border to go to Afghanistan.
