PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has voiced his resentment at the treatment being meted out to Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
“Afghan refugees have been humiliated,” the chief minister claimed, while taking a dig at the federal government’s policy towards the migrants.
Gandapur told a news conference here on Sunday refugee should not be expelled until proper arrangements were put in place for them in their homeland.
The KP administration would decide whether to follow the Centre’s directives on expelling the Afghans residing in the province after March 31, he said, adding he had not been consulted on the issue.
“I don’t support the federal policy on Afghans’ repatriation,” the chief minister commented, calling Islamabad’s strategy ‘inhumane and oppressive’..
“Come March 31 and I being the chief executive of KP will decide whether or not Afghans should be forcibly repatriated. I will decide what suits me, what suits the culture and traditions of KP.”
Gandapur said he was criticised when he suggested negotiations with Afghanistan, though the federal government had earlier agreed with him on the issue.
The chief minister added: “Today, I openly say that resurgence in militancy is the failure and incompetency of the federal government and its institutions.”
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