Islamabad, July 20 (IANS) Police has detained 40 undocumented Afghan nationals during the ongoing crackdown on illegal foreign citizens in Charsadda city of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, local media reported on Monday. Charsadda Deputy Commissioner Azmatullah Wazir said that detained Afghan officials were shifted from the city police station to the Peshawar holding centre. He said the detained individuals would undergo legal and administrative formalities before being deported through the Torkh…
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Kabul, July 15 (IANS) Police have arrested 13 Afghan doctors and one medical student in Multan city of Pakistan’s Punjab province and took them to a deportation centre. The arrests were made despite the group saying that their visa applications have remained pending for nearly a year, local media reported on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the detainees said that police arrested them from a government hospital in Multan before taking them to a detention facility in Attock, where they now face possible de…
Islamabad, March 27 (IANS) Pakistan has resumed deportation of undocumented Afghan refugees through the Torkham border after the border was reopened for one-way pedestrian movement after its month-long closure due to clashes between Kabul and Islamabad, local media reported on Friday. In recent weeks, tensions have escalated between Afghanistan and Pakistan due to airstrikes, artillery fire, and accusations from both sides.Officials at a temporary transit point set up near the Hamza Baba mausole…
Kabul, March 10 (IANS) Afghan intelligence analyst and counterterrorism expert Ajmal Sohail, in an exclusive interview with a leading international affairs magazine, has accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of increasingly targetting Chinese infrastructure and investment projects in Afghanistan. Sohail, co-founder and co-president of the Counter Narco-Terrorism Alliance Germany, emphasised that the move mirrors Islamabad’s concern that Beijing’s expanding engagement with Ka…
Islamabad, Jan 30 (IANS) The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has witnessed a 53.02 per cent decline in revenue due to the continued closure and suspension of trade at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border since October last year, resulting in provincial government seeking intervention from the federal government, local media reported on Friday. The Pakistan-Afghanistan border closure has caused revenue losses for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the collection of Infrastructure Development Cess (IDC) reduced to P…
Kabul, Jan 7 (IANS) Pakistan continues to face massive losses from the prolonged shutdown of border crossings with Afghanistan as trade between two nations remains halted, the local media in Kabul reported quoting an official of Afghanistan’s chamber of commerce. Khan Jan Alokozay, a board member of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI), said Afghanistan previously used to conduct trade worth USD 200 million with Pakistan in a month, majority of them being imports from Islama…
Islamabad, Jan 5 (IANS) People held a protest in the Landi Kotal area of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to demand an immediate reopening of the Torkham border, local media reported on Monday. Traders, transporters, tribal elders, daily wagers, activists of political parties and civil society were part of the protest held on Sunday under the banner of All Borders Coordinators Council.Representatives from various organisations and groups, who were directly impacted by the border shutdown with Afgha…
Islamabad, Dec 30 (IANS) Hundreds of daily-wage workers and porters in Pakistan are facing financial problems due to the continued closure of the Torkham border as they have lost their part-time jobs, local media reported on Monday. As the Torkham border remains shut due to tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the majority of these labourers are looking for jobs in Punjab and Sindh, while others have borrowed money from relatives and friends to manage their daily expenses. They have even s…