The Peshawar High Court has directed the federal government to process applications of 109 Pakistani women for the issuance of Pakistan Origin Cards (POCs) to their Afghan husbands. Justice Syed Arshad Ali and Justice Waqar Ahmad issued the orders after hearing arguments from lawyers for the petitioners, the federal government and the National Database and More
An American diplomat is due in Islamabad for four-day discussions on the resettlement of Afghan refugees in the United States. US Assistant Secretary of State Julieta Valls Noyes would visit Pakistan from December 4 to 7 for talks focused on speeding up the safe relocation and resettlement of Afghan refugees. The US State Department said More
Pakistan’s apex court has issued notices to the federal government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on constitutional petitions against the forcible deportation of Afghan citizens. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) took up on Friday the petitions filed by former PPP senator Farhatullah Babar, Senator Mushtaq Ahmed, Mohsin Dawar and human rights More
About 295 Afghan nationals have reached Toronto on a charter flight from Pakistan, says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). IRCC wrote on its X handle: “Today, 295 Afghan nationals arrived in Toronto on a charter flight from Pakistan. They will continue their journey to approximately 23 communities across Canada, including Calgary, Kingston, and Ottawa.” More
Pakistan has warned all Afghan refugees against supporting or funding political and electoral activities in the country. Violations of the directives would entail deportations irrespective the legal status of the refugees, the Interior Ministry in Islamabad said in a statement on Monday. Funding any candidate’s political and electoral activities Afghan nationals residing in Pakistan was More
Pakistan’s apex court will rule within a week on the maintainability of a petition against the deportation of undocumented Afghan migrants. A Supreme Court bench will take up the petition filed by former PPP senator Farhatullah Babar through his counsel Umer Ijaz Gilani Headed by Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, the bench is comprised of Justice More
Pakistan’s apex court has ordered the fixing of identical petitions challenging the forcible deportation of Afghan nationals. Supreme Court judge Justice Yahya Afridi, allowing identical chamber appeals filed against objections from the registrar’s office to the petitions, ordered their fixing it before an open court. The petitions had been filed by former senator and Pakistan More
Pakistan has announced it will launch a campaign for the expulsion of all Afghan refugees after January 2024. Baluchistan Information Minister Jan Muhammad Achakzai told a press conference the eviction of undocumented Afghan migrants would end in January next. The caretaker government would then announce a fresh schedule for the eviction of documented Afghan refugees More
The Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada says more than 300 Afghan refugees have been transferred from Pakistan to Canada. IRCC wrote on its X handle on Wednesday 325 Afghan refugees were transferred to Calgary, Canada, from Pakistan. It said at least 40,000 Afghans had arrived in Canada since August 2021. hz/ma Views: 11
At least 13 people have been killed and 50 more injured in a train accident on the Howarh-Chennai line in the Andhra Pradesh state of India, media reports say. “The death toll rose to 13 and over 50 people were hospitalised”, said Vizianagaram police chief Deepika M Patil. The divisional railway manager of Waltair Division, More
