Pakistan extends stay of legal Afghan nationals

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): The government of Pakistan has given the go-ahead for extending the validity of Proof of Registration (POR) cards for Afghan refugees from April 1 to June 30 this year.

With this extension, recommended by the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions, POR card-holders will enjoy education, bank accounts and other facilities in Pakistan.

Chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a meeting of the federal cabinet was informed POR card-holders would be sent back to their homeland in the third phase of repatriating illegal aliens. Despite growing calls for a halt to deportations of Afghans, the first phase of repatriating the foreign residents without identity documents from Pakistan is currently in progress.

The caretaker Afghan government, like several global human rights groups, says the deportees encounter shelter, food, and education challenges on return to their country of origin.

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