PESFAWAR (Pajhwok): As many as 129 illegal female Afghan nationals with 178 children have been hailed in Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh province.
A provincial minister said this on Friday in reaction to widespread criticism sparked by a photograph of Afghan minors in jail that recently went viral on social media.
The 178 children were not under arrest, insisted Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon. He confirmed 129 Afghan women were imprisoned in the province.
Memon told reporters in Karachi: “Under the law, children below the age of seven years may be allowed to stay with their mothers in jail. Where will . . .
