Pakistani forces have reportedly launched a door-to-door search operation in different areas of Balochistan’s capital Quetta in search of Afghan refugees.
According to reports, Pakistan’s Frontier Corps (FC) personnel have started the process of checking door-to-door identity cards to identify Afghan refugees in Hazara town of Quetta city.
Locals told TBP correspondents that the local people are also being harassed in the campaign against the evacuation of Afghan immigrants.
Locals added that Pakistani forces have accelerated the process of checking identity cards and Afghan refugees are being searched for in Pashtun dominated areas of Quetta.
It should be recalled that the Pakistan government has started a crackdown on Afghan refugees after the official decision to deport Afghan refugees on November 1 this year.
International human rights organizations have also severely criticized Pakistan on the method of evacuation of Afghan refugees.
It should be noted that the main spokesman of the Taliban government in Afghanistan reacted to Pakistan’s announcement of expelling “illegal immigrants” and said that Pakistan should review its decision.
A spokesman for the Islamic Emirate condemned the decision taken by the caretaker Pakistani government to ban all “illegal immigrants”, including 1.73 million Afghan nationals.
It should be noted that Pakistan’s caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti claimed that 14 of the 24 suicide attacks in the country in 2023 were carried out by Afghan nationals.
In response to this, Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid has said that the treatment of Afghan refugees in Pakistan is unacceptable. He said that Pakistan should review its plan in this regard. “They (Refugees) have no hand in the security affairs of Pakistan. Unless the Afghan refugees leave Pakistan voluntarily and peacefully, Pakistan will have to tolerate them,” he added.