Deportation of foreigners under way

The process of voluntary return and deportation of illegal foreigners on Friday continued as 3,605 more were deported through the Torkham border.

An official of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Home Department said that the process was going on as planned.

He said 577 families, including 1,136 men, 810 women and 1,453 children, were sent to Afghanistan via the Torkham border only.

He added that a total of 1,445 people had been deported from different areas of the country through the Torkham border.

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Two hundred and eighty-eight undocumented foreigners from Peshawar, 81 from Punjab, 24 Islamabad as well as 1,052 Azad Kashmir and K-P were deported.

A total of 200,018 people in total had entered Afghanistan from the Torkham border under the programme so far, he informed.

He said 3,056 foreigners were sent to Afghanistan via the Angoor Adda border and a total of 15,260 families, 56,569 men, 43,769 women and 99,680 children were sent back through the Torkham border.

Likewise, a total of 2,000,018 illegal foreigners were sent to Afghanistan while 91 of them were transferred from the Peshawar Transit Centre to the Torkham border on Friday.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 12^th, 2023.