S.Muddasir Ali Shah

Pakistan has intensified a crackdown on illegal migrants, deporting around 1,100 Afghans via the Torkham crossing over the past 24 hours, officials say.

A veteran Pakistani Pakhtun nationalist leader has voiced aversion to the government’s ongoing campaign to deport Afghan refugees.

Amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal migrants, Pakistani security forces have rounded up and deported hundreds of Afghan citizens, officials say.

Pakistan embarked on the second phase of repatriating Afghan refugees on Thursday.

Pakistan has put in place arrangements for repatriating Afghan nationals to their homeland, ignoring calls from human rights groups to postpone deportations.

Sixteen people have been killed in two separate attacks targeting bus passengers and a house in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior has asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to furnish the record of Afghan students in the province.

Eight people, including four security personnel, have been killed in two separate attacks in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan.

With the immigration computer system at the Torkham crossing fixed, pedestrian movement between Afghanistan and Pakistan may resume today (Saturday).

Pakistani and Afghan representatives reached an agreement on the reopening of the Torkham crossing on Tuesday (today).

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has voiced his resentment at the treatment being meted out to Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

Five paramilitary troops were killed and a dozen others wounded in a bomb attack in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Sunday.