Afghans are piling into trucks and buses and leaving Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation
Large numbers of Afghans crammed into trucks and buses in Pakistan on Tuesday, heading to the border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. The deadline is part of a new anti-migrant crackdown that targets all undocumented or unregistered foreigners, according to Islamabad. But it mostly affects Afghans, who make up the bulk of migrants in Pakistan.
My mother also died here and their graves are in Pakistan,' said Amin, originally from Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province. 'We are going back today as we never tried to register ourselves as refugees with the U.N. refugee agency.” “I am going back with good memories,' he told The Associated Press, adding taht he would head to the Torkham border crossing later Tuesday.
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