Overview
- The government refused to extend the June 30 deadline, triggering forced deportations of about 1.4 million Afghans holding expired PoR cards.
- Police across Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are conducting house-to-house checks and detaining Afghan Citizen Card holders on grounds of illegal stay.
- Afghan returnees at Torkham report extortion, document confiscation, and humiliating treatment by Pakistani officials.
- UNHCR has warned that the deportations risk breaching non-refoulement obligations and endangering refugees’ lives.
- The mass expulsions threaten to strain Afghanistan’s fragile economy and stoke regional instability as returnees face dire humanitarian conditions.