Not allowed: PHC seeks reply about Afghan businesses

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday sought explanation from the Ministry of State and Frontier Regions’ (Safron) secretary as well as the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) chief secretary about businesses run by the Afghan refugees and sale and purchase of properties by them.



The explanation was sought on a petition filed by Advocate Khurshid Khan who requested the PHC bench to direct the federal government not to extend Afghan refugees stay and to order the K-P government to put a ban all businesses by them.

He contended that the refugees continued to be a burden on the Pakistan economy and had been using the country’s resources. “Most Afghan nationals hold fake documents, run big businesses here and own huge properties,” the counsel argued.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 20^th, 2017.