Pakistan

Re-admission agreements suspended with Western countries: Nisar

Nisar says some 90,000 people were deported to Pakistan last year without verification with Pakistani authorities

Web Desk November 06, 2015

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar. PHOTO: FILE

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar announced on Friday the suspension of re-admission agreements with the Western countries - excluding the United Kingdom - because of its severe misuse, Radio Pakistan reported.

Nisar said that according to re-admission agreements, Pakistanis traveling to western countries had to be deported after proper verification but many countries have been deporting them without consulting Pakistani authorities.

He revealed that about 90,000 people were deported to Pakistan in 2014.

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Nisar said over the last few months scores of Pakistanis traveling abroad without required documents were sent back to Pakistan on charges of terrorism but without verification if they actually belonged to Pakistan.

In reply to a question, Nisar said India’s real face was exposed in recent acts of violence against minorities, particularly Muslims.

Meanwhile, the interior minister said operation will soon be launched against facilitators of terrorists.

COMMENTS (12)

bash gul | 8 years ago | Reply The Saudi Authority once packed thousands of Bangladeshis on planes and sent them back to BD without varifying their country of origin, whereby the prime minister of BD had to come to Riyadh to convince the Saudi Aurhorities to first verify their status. Is Pakistan in a position to refuse from any western state ? When the sheikhs of the gulf were denied hunting licences, the UAE government put a quota of 15% of Pakistanis could be employed in any firm.

Tommy Gunn | 8 years ago | Reply The world is dumping Pakistanis & the minister is talking about India. You will never learn.

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Ashraf | 8 years ago | Reply Once CPEC is finished, refugees from US and EU will come pouring in. Pakistan will send them back in small boats.

Irshad Khan | 8 years ago | Reply Pakistani destroy their passport in the plane before landing at a airport in U.S or Canada and claimed refugee status without any travel documents. Normally they were processed and some were accepted as legal refugee. Choudhry Nisar made a wrong decision, from now on every Pakistani that land in U.S or Canada without I/D will be sent back in the same plane without any refugee hearing.

Aakashvaani | 8 years ago | Reply Pakistan should declare all Pakistanis non-state actors. It may save some embarrassment when disowning Pakistanis deported from other countries, since, no one wants Pakistanis anymore, NOT EVEN PAKISTAN.

ajeet | 8 years ago | Reply India will treat its Muslims just like how Pakistan treats its Hindus.

Skywalker | 8 years ago | Reply And as always, as our other esteems leaders do, Ch Nisar take a stab at India and reminds the world about the atrocities on its minorities, while not talking about the skeletons in Pakistan's closet and why so many Pakistanis are getting deported back. Every Pakistani will now love you even more.

Tyggar | 8 years ago | Reply I guess the alternative would be to put them on a boat and send them out in the open ocean

Angry Pitbull | 8 years ago | Reply Readmission agreement is between EU pakistan Russia, Balkans, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Macao, why unnecessarily India's name is dragged inbetween this issue.

curious2 | 8 years ago | Reply I know having 90,000 Pakistanis returned might be embarrassing .... but how does allowing them to remain in foreign jails resolve anything? I am not sure it's even legal to refuse to accept your own citizens back into Pakistan ... where's the law that allows Nisar to do that?

Sodomite | 8 years ago | Reply Please cut back on your verbosity Mr. Minister. Get a grip on the law and order in Pakistan and complying with SC verdicts. He obviously missed the CJ speech to the Senate.

A-No.1 | 8 years ago | Reply He will make a fast U-turn when EU threatens the GSP Plus. This guy is fooling the Pakistanis by making statements publically but in reality he will be giving a nod and a wink to the EU deportations.

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